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...third year of the Oscars, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science named ?All Quiet on the Western Front? the best picture of 1930. In its third year, the New York Film Critics? Circle convened in Rockefeller Center?s Rainbow Room to cite Greta Garbo as 1937?s best actress, in ?Camille.? The third year of the Tony Awards, 1949, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan won for ?The Death of a Salesman.? The Grammy for Record of the Year in 1960, that award?s third time around, went to Percy Faith?s ?Theme from a Summer Place...
...cost a country dearly. The E.U., Japan and other countries immediately banned the import of Thai chickens. Thaksin's own credibility has also taken a hit. Thai officials anonymously told local newspapers they were aware of the presence of avian flu in November but were told to keep it quiet and blame the culling of poultry on an outbreak of chicken cholera and bronchitis. Away from the cameras, Thaksin and his Cabinet may be less eager to feast on Thai chicken...
...these trees - and there's nothing to disturb them." For two decades, the people in Agok's village of Mayenwal have lived a life of fear. When the Sudanese military captured the nearby city of Rumbek in the mid-'80s, the villagers walked for two weeks to a quiet area in another tribe's lands, far from the fighting. They weathered famine, sometimes eating leaves, and when the southern rebel army retook the city in 1997, began their slow trickle back. But they have been too poor and felt too vulnerable to put down roots. Outside government-held towns, there...
...Weiner-Davis encourages a dose of what she calls "real giving"--asking couples to realize what their partner needs in certain situations and provide what he needs regardless of whether the giver understands it. For example, if your spouse prefers to be alone when he's upset, allow him quiet time, even if you prefer to talk when you're upset...
...20th century and up to the present conflict with Iraq, and it may shock his devoted fans. Absolute Friends (Little, Brown; 455 pages) is a work of fist-shaking, Orwellian outrage. "At the end of the cold war, people said I was finished," Le Carre says with quiet determination. "I felt I was really just beginning...