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...success has been a double-edged sword. The festival is widely known and respected, and it attracts some of cinema's best and brightest every year - as well as the fans, shills and paparazzi who feast on them. At this year's festival, which lasts through Jan. 31, the feature films star actors like Ben Affleck, Elijah Wood, Jessica Alba and Dakota Fanning. Yet for every Tilda Swinton, there is a Jon Gosselin to show up and pose for pictures or grab free "swag bags" at lounges set up by retailers who hope to get their clothes, watches and products...
While best known for his music–and perhaps the “wardrobe malfunction” involving him and Janet D.J. Jackson during Super Bowl XXXVIII–Timberlake has also started his own record company, acted and voiced characters in movies, started a clothing line, opened several restaurants, and taken home Emmy awards for his performances in “Saturday Night Live...
Gould, a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for “The Mismeasure of Man,” developed the theory known as “punctuated equilibrium,” which describes evolution as a sporadic, jerky process over a period of time rather than a smooth, gradual change in traits...
Stiglitz, a former World Bank Chief Economist who is known for his critical views of modern globalization, lambasted “market fundamentalists” for their devout adherence to capitalism, which resulted in loosened regulations and increased risk-taking...
...same-sex couples in California brought their challenge to the state's gay-marriage ban before a federal judge on Jan. 11, the latest step in a contentious legal battle that will likely lead to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case--concerning the voter-approved 2008 referendum known as Proposition 8--is already setting some unusual precedents. The plaintiffs are represented by Theodore Olson and David Boies, the star litigators best known for arguing on opposing sides in the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election. The trial could also be one of the first federal proceedings broadcast...