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...seems that, finally, the film world actually cares what BAFTA thinks. The proof? One word: Brangelina. By far the starriest of stars who've attended the ceremony in a long time (for two people who didn't win any awards, they generated a lot of column inches in Monday's papers), the Jolie-Pitts sent out the message that the BAFTAs matter. Now if George Clooney and Julia Roberts show up next year, the BAFTAs' redemption will be complete...
...there will surely be debates over the wisdom of Australia's standard policy of advising residents to either flee a fire early or stay in their homes and wait it out. John Brumby, the premier of the fire-hit Australian state of Victoria, told a local radio station on Monday that "people will want to review that ... There is no question that there were people who did everything right, put in place their fire plan, and it [didn't] matter - their house was just incinerated...
...outcome of the French trial comes at a significant moment. On Monday, a U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear a case brought by three plaintiffs charging they were tortured during extraordinary renditions the Bush administration approved as part of the war on terror. Previous legal challenges to such measures were thwarted by government refusal to provide courts with evidence or testimony requested, citing state secrecy. Many observers now hope the Obama administration will release previously withheld information as it deconstructs the extra-legal system for dealing with terror suspects and return them to courts that handled them...
History not only gives cities their shape; it also molds their self-image. Since 1941, when London emerged from eight months of bombing with many of its landmarks pulverized but its resilience intact, the British capital has regarded itself as indomitable. But at 9 a.m. on a wintry Monday, a shock wave cracked that image, much as a V-2 rocket hitting a house would damage neighboring properties. Londoners learned that the city's entire fleet of buses had been recalled to its depots, defeated not by bombs - the service had run quixotically but without interruption throughout the Blitz...
English Professor Stephen J. Greenblatt, who chairs the Task Force on the Arts, presented his committee’s recommendations to the Faculty Council. Speaking at an Undergraduate Council meeting on Monday, University President Drew G. Faust acknowledged that not all of the Task Force’s recommendations would go forward immediately because of the current financial situation...