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...those of us watching, this year's Oscar crop is a quiet bunch: very serious and not terribly popular. The absence of a pure audience smash is an X factor that adds to the mystery, the thrill of the gamble. And if you haven't seen all the films, don't worry. We have, and to help guide you through the awards, we're handicapping the races. How did we make our picks? From conversations with Academy insiders and nominees, from our experience of Oscars past and, well, from tea leaves. But use these picks for your Oscar pool...
Libby's motions could go on through this year; jury selection won't begin in the case until 2007. That guarantees the story will continue to crop up in the headlines, risking embarrassment for the Vice President. "The President doesn't like people screwing up," says a former Administration official. "Libby, even if he's found innocent, screwed up, and that's Cheney's problem because he's Cheney...
...readily apparent, as is his heartbreak. Although Perabo dons a respectable British excellent, and her doe eyes are so innocently and cutely expressive, she fails to capture the audience like her co-stars. It would be easy to lump “Imagine” with the current crop of gay-themed movies like “Brokeback Mountain,” but this flick is far too frothy and fluffy for such a comparison. In terms of tweaking the romantic comedy to accommodate modern notions of love, “Imagine” is rather...
This year’s crop of charm-seekers included curious freshmen, seniors partaking in their final moments of MIT tradition, graduate students seeking to brush up on social skills, a handful of Harvard students, and even MIT’s Beaver mascot...
...Hudspeth County is not a major crossing point for illegal immigrants; the terrain is too unforgiving and there are more direct ways to get to labor markets in Dallas, Phoenix and Chicago. But marijuana smugglers bring in their crop grown in the nearby Chihuahua desert. West said his men confiscated 300,000 pounds last year and "that was just what we caught." "It used to be cat-and-mouse," West said, and the only weapon most smugglers had "were two fast feet." Now, they are armed with high-powered weapons and, West believes, are getting protection from Mexican Army units...