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...When the Academy did honor famous people - stars who might actually prop up the sinking ratings of what was once the highest-rated TV show except for the Super Bowl - it chose the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong films. It's sweet that Angelina Jolie will accompany her beau Brad (Best Actor nominee for Benjamin Button) to the ceremony, but a shame that she was made a Best Actress finalist for her work as the desperate mother in Changeling, a performance so miscalibrated that it yanks the story out of its period whenever...
...Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1999 for his work in Northern Ireland...
...friend, told me how important the music of Motown had been to the troops and how they would be in the ditches and foxholes and bivouacs and their joy was to be dancing and singing Motown music. That is so wonderful to me. It's a great honor to think that those guys were comforted by my music...
...movement. Israelis became convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat played a double game, talking peace but battling Israelis from within the Jewish state and the Palestinian territories. In 2000, after the collapse of the Clinton Administration's peace talks at Camp David, Arafat, claiming that Israel had failed to honor its commitments, presided over a second intifadeh. Then came the wave of suicide bombings from 2001 through mid-2002, which wreaked terror in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
...what it hopes will be the usual summer tourist invasion. And environmentalists intensify their campaign to add what would be the 21st butterfly to the list of protected species in the U.S. "Diverse native insects should be cause for celebration," says Rosmarino. "I would like to see Cloudcroft honor and promote its endemic checkerspot, perhaps with a butterfly festival." Cloudcroft is less enthusiastic. "Their agenda," warns Michael Nivison, the village administrator, "is to get everybody out of the forest...