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...beneath the façade of movie-business-as-usual, celebrity reaction to the event was hued by the international crisis that went a shade deeper than the suddenly ubiquitous multicolored "Remember Haiti" ribbons dotting tuxes and gowns. Clutching a Golden Globe in his left hand, the night's big winner Avatar director James Cameron waxed philosophical about the entertainment community's response. "When Hollywood puts on the glitz, people of conscience are divided," Cameron told TIME. "You don't know how to react. Should we be happy, should we be sort-of happy?" (See TIME's exclusive pictures from...
...amazing descent down a four-story shopping-mall pole in the original Police Story, Chan reenacts in milder fashion, befitting an elder statesman of knockabout melodrama. Spy's stunt coordinators (Wu Gang, who's worked with Chan for the past decade, and Bob Brown) give the star some hand-to-frying-pan legerdemain in the kitchen, which is just fancy enough to remind you how great Jackie once...
...current House bill but seems headed for a quiet death because of moderate Democrats' concerns that it would lead to socialized medicine - would have included no federal funding of benefits. Some health-policy observers wonder if an expanded federal role would prompt HHS to take a heavier hand in running what has been a state-controlled program. Says Gail Wilensky, a health care economist who held high-level governmental positions under both Bush presidencies: "Up until now, I have described Medicaid as a state program with federal oversight. That will obviously change...
...hijackers demanded that 1,500 prisoners in Cyprus and Israel be released and that they be flown out of Pakistan. At one point, the hijackers shot and threw hand grenades at passengers and crew in one part of the plane. Some 20 people, including two Americans, died during the hijacking...
Cott herself, who will teach a history course this spring entitled “Men and Women in Public and Private: The U.S. in the 20th Century,” is unconvinced that the historical argument should be enough to solve the legal issue at hand...