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...Bullock ran away with it from there, always keeping her sense of humor and humility. With her Screen Actors Guild victory, she showed her typical acceptance-speech excellence, hitting every mark - including sincerity - and wrapping up with thanks to her seated husband Jesse James. The famous tattooed tough guy and chopper enthusiast visibly choked up in front of the cameras as she spoke. (See the top 10 post-Oscar busts...
...which gives out TV's Emmy awards. The rationale for the "award goes to ..." format is twofold: it plugs the award continuously, and it doesn't make losers feel any worse than they already do. "There's just a little bit of negative spin on saying, 'Oh yeah, this guy won this. The rest of you guys, by implication, did not win - hence are losers.' " says Leverence...
...Enemies of the State Joe Klein, in "Into the Lion's Den," is correct that the Republicans' need to demonize Obama trumps the party's ideological beliefs [Feb. 15]. What happened to jumping over the net and congratulating the guy who beat you? Through obstruction, obfuscation and outright lying about Obama - death panels, indeed - they make it clear that the only GOP agenda is to bring Obama down. If this President fails, we all fail. Judith Buczek Camano Island, Wash...
...Romer all bring strengths to their positions, but none is especially effective at conveying either a consistent message or a sufficient urgency, and none stands out symbolically or practically as America's economics czar. It is not practical for the President himself to serve as the daily go-to guy on any one issue, and given the short- and long-term consequences of the financial and unemployment crises, Obama desperately needs a distinct leader to handle this vital job. Bush needed a Robert Rubin figure, and so does Obama...
...bomb from the Enola Gay on Hiroshima. For Hanks, the U.S. armed forces' island-hopping - Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, among other bloody military engagements - was just a blur on a map that seemed impossibly exotic and faraway. "Strange to think that I've become the World War II guy," Hanks laughs. "All my friends had dads who were on the U.S.S. Nimitz or U.S.S. Enterprise or U.S.S. Coral Sea. They lived in naval housing, and everybody who was like a primary caregiver to me talked about the war. But when it came to understanding the history, I nodded...