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...nominated as Best Film twice?once in the main category, the other in the Foreign Language Film niche. Ang Lee's Mandarin masterpiece of martial artistry (officially a Taiwanese entry) will win the "lesser" prize, the one in which films from every country but the U.S. compete as equal. The movie is something of a critical and popular phenomenon in North America; it is already the all-time top-grossing foreign language film, with $60 million in the till so far and hopes of reaching $100 million...
...Sure, Leibowitz exposed the rats to a veritable wonderland of fattening food, and placed no limits on the rats' consumption - but remember, she was trying to recreate the temptations we humans face every single day. Even given equal access to the unhealthy fare, the rats who were doomed to really expand were far more likely than their slimmer peers to gorge themselves on the fattening foods...
...study and found Dior can be a brand with several different talents," says Toledano, pointing out that his firm's fine jewelry is designed by Victoire de Castellane and will get a new store on the Place Vend?me this spring. The brand-management theory? Separate but equal...
...industry goes with the high end of the range, which could equal as much as 10% of U.S. consumption for as long as six years. ANWR would ease America's more than $100 billion annual foreign-oil bill, the argument goes. And by pumping more than 1 million bbl. a day from the reserve for the next two to three decades, lobbyists claim, the nation could cut back on imports equivalent to all shipments to the U.S. from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest producer. Sounds good. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall in tax revenues...
...their confidence for long. Most have endured frustrating years waiting for deals to be signed, as bureaucracy, xenophobia and corruption combined to thwart their dreams of bringing Sakhalin's well-known oil riches to the outside world. But in recent months, the oilmen have turned almost giddy--buoyed in equal measure by the high price of crude and President Vladimir Putin's pledge to build a legal foundation for the West's multibillion-dollar oil bet on Russia...