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...happened Feb. 10, as it does each year at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Scientific and Technical Awards, the brainy Hollywood gathering that merits about a one-minute summary at the prime-time Oscars. The event, held this year at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. and hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal, honors the unsung heroes of show business, the men behind the men behind the movie - making gadgets that make men like Peter Jackson and George Lucas look so smart...
...motion-capture version of Beowulf. Any changes to your appearance...
...weeks ago, Sid Ganis, the president of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and Salma Hayek, the cleavage at an otherwise mundane 5:30 a.m. press conference, announced the nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards. There were the contenders we all expected, some big snubs, and a few Cinderella stories. Let the games begin.Best Picture: “Babel,” “The Departed,” “Letters from Iwo Jima,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Queen”This year...
...seemed highly unlikely a new trial would actually begin on March 19. Seitz, Watada's lawyer, said there would be scheduling conflicts and that in any case he would file an immediate motion to dismiss the case whenever it was finally reconvened. "It is my opinion that Lieut. Watada cannot be tried again because of the effect of double jeopardy," he said, contending that because it was prosecutors who asked for the mistrial, and because the judge granted the mistrial over the opposition of defense lawyers, the prosecutors could not subsequently retry Watada...
...most of the captured land going back to the Arabs. But there came only more wars -- the War of Attrition in 1969-70, the October War of 1973. Only in 1977 did Egyptian President Anwar Sadat break the stalemate by traveling to Jerusalem to set a partial peace in motion. In 1979 Israel agreed to return all of the Sinai to Egypt in return for the formal peace treaty negotiated with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter at Camp David. That event was one of Israel's finer moments, but its full promise was never realized. Sadat...