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Some actors who pick up the megaphone get an immediate Academy reward. Robert Redford (Ordinary People) and Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves) won Best Director Oscars their first time out, and both triumphed in years when Martin Scorsese, widely acclaimed as the most potent picturemaker around, had strong contenders (Raging Bull and GoodFellas). This year Scorsese is likely to be nominated for Gangs of New York. Does he have nightmares of another first timer--Washington or Clooney--tiptoeing up Oscar's steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What They Really Want is to Direct | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...This is the first playoff game for the Raiders since last January in New England, when the nation learned what a tuck play was, and Adam Vinatieri booted one of the most improbable kicks in NFL history. Having garnered the AFC's No. 1 seed, the Silver & Black's reward is a date with perhaps the NFL hottest team, the Jets, winners of eight of their last 10, including last week's destruction of the Colts. Oakland, however, handed New York one of those losses, 26-20, on a Monday night in early December, and it has record-setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NFL Playoff Preview: Divisional Round | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

...have a good relationship with Mills,” Murphy said. “He was a hard worker and I feel you should reward people and empower them...

Author: By Samita Mannappaeruma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football's Mills to Leave | 12/17/2002 | See Source »

...takes a spaghetti strainer out of a sack stuffed with Bibles and turns it into a spiky helmet by filling its holes with nails facing outward. Then he places the metal headgear on a nervous volunteer. A child shouts out the correct answer--"Feeding pigs!"--and, as a reward, gets to aim water balloons at the newly anointed human porcupine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Funday School | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...reward offered for the capture of India's Koose Muniswamy Veerappan, who is wanted for the murder of former minister Hanur Nagapa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

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