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...Long Island. Disney, in a dispute with the cable supplier Cablevision, last night shut down Cablevision's access to WABC, the country's most-watched local TV station, on which the Oscars are to be shown. Although the show can be seen online, and on Hulu, if a deal isn't reached by 8:30 this evening, movie-mad viewers may have no choice but to go to the local multiplex, and see... Disney's Alice in Wonderland...
...movie career took off with Big (1988), he desperately wanted to make a first-class Vietnam War film. But by then, a second wave of Vietnam movies was in full swing (Full Metal Jacket and Good Morning, Vietnam came out in 1987), and he couldn't see how to deal with the subject more skillfully than Francis Ford Coppola had in Apocalypse Now or Oliver Stone had in Platoon - or more thoroughly than in PBS's 11-hour 1983 documentary history. In 1994, however, Hanks brought to the screen the impact of Vietnam on his generation in the tragicomic Forrest...
...political issue of paying a premium to buy the company of an employee who left Google, the fact that Google already has a photo-editing suite and Picnik's reliance on the Flash platform. Google as a company was able to navigate past these hurdles and close the deal. Other bidders were stalled by their own political inertia...
...federal investigation into UBS, which led to a $780 million fine and an agreement to turn over the names of more than 4,450 suspected tax cheats, is now in tatters after Swiss courts ruled against the executive-branch deal. To get around it, a special law has been proposed to accomplish the handoff, but that may not get anywhere in the legislature either. One outcome is already known: tax evasion had become a key service of the Swiss economy, not some isolated event. "They have been outed completely because a very large chunk of their business has been shown...
...Historians will debate the causes of Iraq's vicious outpouring of sectarian violence after the American invasion in 2003 - was it a reaction to the suppression of religious identity under Saddam Hussein or an extension of the policies of American administrators who found it easiest to deal with Iraqis through a crude sectarian and ethnic prism? Whatever the cause, the sectarian leaders who prevailed in the elections enabled by the U.S. proved incapable of peacefully resolving their differences, which were instead settled in the streets. But as Iraq's fragile new democracy matures, its ever divisive identity politics are becoming...