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...said Gosling, who is nominated for a Best Actor Oscar against Forest Whitaker. "He said it's exhausting winning all the time. I wouldn't know. He better win tomorrow night. I've got a lot of money on him." In a sign of just how far under-the-radar Spirit Award winner performances like Epps' are compared to those honored at the Oscars, presenter Felicity Huffman called the young winner "Shakira" twice. "Oh, my name's Shareeka by the way," Epps said when she took the stage...
...Meanwhile the militia and the insurgents have been finding ways to operate under the radar and out of firing range. On the streets of Ghazaliyah, Sgt. Michaud said, the Mahdi Army continued to "slowly, but surely," force Sunnis from their homes through other forms of intimidation. The more immediate threat, though, may be a spectacular Sunni insurgent attack designed to show residents in Ghazaliyah that their power has not been blunted. "If I'm the enemy, I've lost the initiative," Peterson said. "I've got to do something big and visual...
...told him that he could certainly ask, but that I couldn’t promise anything.” So he joined the team with seemingly dim hopes of ever playing a meaningful match. Though his play was not the prettiest to watch, once on his coaches’ radar Denenberg had the opportunity to showcase his drive: a most important trait, but the toughest to recruit. And showcase it he did, often to the point of distancing himself from his teammates. “I didn’t get along with my teammates the first year...
...more respectable forms of watercolors - what could easily be recognized as art, if not great art - in their twilight years. But in their prime, when Elder and Feldstein (and Herriman and Segar and King) were doing their most vigorous work, sending out comic distress signals under the academic radar, they probably didn't think of themselves as Picassos...
Still, in the intricate mixture of public and private actors that is emerging in the Iran-contra scam, a Saudi connection is not at all farfetched. In 1981, when Saudi Arabia faced an uphill struggle to win congressional approval to buy five AWACS radar planes (ironically, for protection against any military threat from Iran), four U.S. officials worked hard to turn the tide. They were North, then a little-known aide at the NSC; Charles P. Tyson, another NSC staffer; Richard Secord, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense; and Robert Lilac, a Pentagon official who moved to the NSC, where...