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...This year's nominees will reflect the judgment of 81 active voting members - journalists representing 55 countries and publications with a combined reach of more than 250 million readers. The annual awards ceremony (scheduled this season for the evening of Jan. 11) is regularly one of America's most-watched televised awards shows. But while a Golden Globe gives winning films and TV series considerable exposure to a wider audience, it is the ceremony's position on the Oscar calendar that brings the HFPA considerable influence...
...Nominations for February's Academy Awards are due by 5 p.m. on Jan. 12 - less than 24 hours after the Golden Globes telecast. Some pundits speculate that a strong showing at the Golden Globes could sway Oscar voters at the last second. Case in point: last time around, the HFPA chose Atonement and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street as the best films of the year. The former went on to receive a Best Picture Oscar...
...very fact that Blackwater guards like the five being presently indicted for voluntary manslaughter are, along with the almost 200,000 other defense contractors currently employed in Iraq, technically outside Iraqi jurisdiction until Jan. 1 of next year, should start to provide answers to these questions. Unfettered by the chain of command and court-martial and outside the reach of the nascent Iraqi government, these mercenaries, specifically commissioned to provide security instead of standard U.S. armed forces, went about for years almost totally free of accountability. It’s almost surprising that the 2007 shootings and the few ugly...
...worried they will linger past Barack Obama's inauguration and into the dawn of the new Democratic era. She issued a statement the day before Thanksgiving saying she expects the House Ethics Committee to complete its initial inquiry into Rangel - an investigation that the chairman called for himself - by Jan...
...weeks, though, Abdel Kader and others may feel differently. Under the terms of the recently approved bilateral U.S-Iraqi security pact (which takes effect on Jan. 1) the 30,000 or so private security contractors operating in Iraq will be stripped of legal immunity and become subject to Iraqi jurisdiction. The retraction of that get-out-of-jail-free card may prompt a change in the way these firms operate. "I think private security companies are toning it down now," said Lawrence Peter, director of the Private Security Company Association of Iraq. "The number of incidents of shooting that have occurred...