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...make an Oscar win for her impossible—Marcia Gay Harden got no SAG nomination for Pollock and walked off with the Oscar—but it does make a victory for her further unlikely. If Aghdashloo wins, it’ll be a jaw-dropper...
...statesmen, entertainers and smart hostesses. Readers who didn't know from Indian magical realism started buying his energetic novels. Did you catch his movie cameo in Bridget Jones's Diary ? The hard-partying novelist turns out to be a thoughtful and feisty essayist, if a bit of a name-dropper. There's too much "my friend Alan Yentob" and "I recently asked Vaclav Havel" in these articles, letters and speeches. And some shouldn't be here at all - including, truth be told, a moldy piece on independent India's 50th anniversary that I edited for this magazine...
...good mind, and he's a hard worker," Kennedy told TIME. "We've tangled on policy issues," he added, predicting that "there will be sharp questioning over whether he's going to be in the mainstream or on the edges." Ashcroft is a good note dropper who dashes off friendly cards to Republicans and Democrats alike. After his bitter Senate loss to the late Mel Carnahan in November, he sent a page-long handwritten note to Democratic leader Tom Daschle, thanking him for his friendship and help during the previous six years. Ashcroft said his only regret was that they...
...other jaw dropper was that instead of making a quick jaunt to a neighboring desert kingdom, the heads of state and their massive entourages (Saudi Arabia brought 340 people) jetted all the way to Venezuela--the only Latin American member of this exclusive club, and long a member in poor standing for consistently flouting production quotas...
This conviction has brought Darrell's family, including his ex-wife, together in a ministry they call the Columbine Redemption. The message is powerful: in London, Ky., a town of 7,000, fully 5,500 people showed up to hear Darrell speak. That was a jaw dropper, but he regularly draws crowds of more than 3,000. "God is using this tragedy to wake up not only America but also the world," Darrell told a Christian group in Little Rock in November. "God is using Rachel as a vehicle. If I believed for one second that God had forsaken...