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...awards appeared to confirm the status of Day-Lewis, Bardem and Christie as front-runners for their respective Oscar awards. Dee was a sentimental favorite among the membership: Ossie Davis, her actor husband of 57 years and another lion for racial equality, died two years ago. But she still has stiff competition from Cate Blanchett, who impersonated Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, and Amy Ryan, multi-award-winner as the rotten mom in Gone Baby Gone...
...Local residents confirm that Taliban members were meeting in the house that night. Mullah Baz Mohammed, the Taliban-designated "governor" of Uruzgan, was also expected for dinner but failed to appear. "Some of the men in the house were Taliban," says district chief Malim Faiz Mohammed (no relation). "But people like the Daad family do not have the resources or backing to tell the Taliban to stay away. They have a problem from both sides: they are frightened of the ISAF and of the Taliban," who intimidate villagers into helping them and kill those who refuse...
...confirm this timing I took a look from a different perspective. If we're depressed, we're probably also seeking pharmacological help. By aggregating the traffic to the websites of the top antidepressants and charting visits to those sites over the last three years, a very interesting pattern emerges. The spike in traffic to the official websites for drugs like Lexapro, Prozac, Paxil and Cymbalta occurs in late October and early November, two weeks ahead of the height in searches on "depression." It's almost as if people anticipate their holiday depression and start shopping early for their drug...
...their relationship because "we don't want to hide". But as press reports began swirling the following week alleging the couple had already secretly married in Paris, Sarkozy decided maybe he did have something to hide after all. As reports of the elopement proliferated, Sarkozy began refusing to confirm or deny the rumors...
Within a few years, new telescopes being built in the Chilean Andes could confirm if some of these flaws are indeed still out there. If so, that's one more nod to Sir Arthur Eddington, the early-20th century physicist who said, "Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine...