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...while the critics have been fussing over wrestlers and Mumbai quiz shows, audiences have been flocking to Gran Torino - an Oscar outcast that's been doing laps around the competition at the box office. At some point this week, the Clint Eastwood drama will pass the $100 million mark, easily surpassing the box-office receipts brought in by not only some of the Oscar front-runners (Slumdog Millionaire now totals $56 million, Milk $21 million) but also Eastwood's last Oscar winner, Million Dollar Baby...
...Eastwood has been quoted as saying that this could mark his last outing as an actor. If that's true, he will be going...
...against pressure to run the filmed appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), a nonaligned umbrella organization representing 13 long-established charities such as the British Red Cross, Christian Aid and Oxfam. Defending the decision on one of the BBC's own morning news shows today, BBC director general Mark Thompson said, "We are passionate about our impartiality ... We worry about being seen to endorse something that could give the impression we were only backing one side...
Asian communities throughout the world will mark the Lunar New Year beginning Jan. 26 with festivities that include plenty of food, firecrackers (to chase away evil spirits), red paper lanterns (red being a bright color that portends a sunny future) and dragon and lion dances for good luck. (In the dances, a group of performers holds up a model of the animal's head and a long train symbolizing its body and moves sinuously as a way to demonstrate power and dignity - no lions or dragons are harmed.) Such traditions are rooted in an astrological system that dates back...
...such awkward moments did little to overshadow a beginning for the Obama White House that has been mostly on track. From the Inaugural Address itself, Obama and his staff have worked to mark a sharp change in policy from the Bush Administration, with a tightening of rules on ethics, interrogation policy and detention policy. Obama also began holding daily economic briefings with his advisers, much like the national security briefings that every President receives at daybreak. "He felt it was important that each day he receive the most up-to-date information as it relates to the economy," Gibbs told...