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...theatrical release and going direct to DVD when the company that owned it was shuttered. Yet the film, made for $13 million, has earned nearly $60 million in North America. And after top wins at the Golden Globes and from the Producers and Screen Actors guilds, it's the front runner to take the Academy Award for Best Picture on Oscar night, Feb. 22. Miracle, anyone? (See the top 10 movie performances...
...chador-clad volunteer says she talks to women wherever she finds them, while shopping for vegetables or at the bakery. Fatemeh Rezai, 38, standing in front of four large file cabinets with detailed health information on each household in her district, says she is proud of the work she does, "especially after hearing our Health Minister say that life expectancy in Iran has gone up from 57 to 73 in just a few decades...
Three miles (5 km) from town, I passed the last Congolese-army checkpoint and crossed the front line into rebel territory. Two hours later, at Kiwanga, where first Mai Mai and then Nkunda's advancing forces executed 50 to 100 young men on Nov. 5, thousands of refugees converged on a MONUC base, spooked by rumors of a Mai Mai counterattack. On their heads and wooden bicycles they carried mattresses, sacks of potatoes, children. The Indian soldiers at the base drove two armored personnel carriers 300 ft. (90 m) outside. They kept 30 more carriers, tanks, jeeps and trucks...
...under a falling wall. Still conscious, Sister Marķa used her mobile phone to call Father George at a nearby Catholic mission. He contacted officials at MONUC and asked for an armored rescue but says they refused. A few hours later, the rebels carried Sister Marķa to the front line. From there, a group of nuns took her to the Rutshuru hospital, where both her legs were amputated. The next day, Father George again asked MONUC to take Sister Marķa to its base for an air evacuation. Again MONUC refused, and the nuns took her themselves once more...
...that front, Republicans could come to Obama's rescue. Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell has told Obama in person that his party favors entitlement reform and would work for passage if both parties shared the risk. Republicans have always been keener than Democrats about curbing the automatic-spending programs, but the depth of the GOP's appetite for reform is uncertain because Congress has not taken a real vote on entitlement cuts since the early 1980s...