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This is not an easy year to handicap the Oscar nominations, due to be announced Feb. 11. Nearly every category offers eight or ten plausible nominees, a marked rise from the typical six or seven. True, shoo-ins exist in every category, and, yes, Chicago and The Hours both stand to rake in numerous nods; nevertheless, this year’s nominations race is as wide-open as I’ve ever seen...
...their benefits 85%; Santa Monica, Calif., passed laws preventing them from sleeping in the doors of shops or receiving food from unlicensed providers; Madison, Wis., is handing them a record number of tickets; Seattle banned the sale of malt liquor and Thunderbird in Pioneer Square as its initiative to shoo away the alcoholics...
...Then there's Stephen Friedman, the former head of Goldman Sachs. Widely considered a shoo-in to replace Lindsay, his appointment hit a snag this week while the White House worked through a slew of undisclosed "personal and professional issues." When President Bush formally named Friedman to replace Lindsay Thursday afternoon, it was only after days of speculation that Friedman's reputation for deficit phobia - he served as a director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group whose members oppose federal budget deficits - might have caught up with him. The White House maintained throughout the delay that they were only...
...taxis, something curious is happening. A new construction site has sprung up just outside the grounds of the presidential palace, with a formidable wall of soil-filled shipping containers stacked two levels high. The swarms of Afghan laborers say they don't know what they're building. American engineers shoo away anyone who asks about it. But members of the palace guard, charged with protecting President Hamid Karzai, say the construction sits above an aging bunker complex and that U.S. forces from the 769th Engineer Battalion are refashioning it for the President. "We're building an underground bunker for Karzai...
...taxis, something curious is happening. A new construction site has sprung up just outside the grounds of the presidential palace, with a formidable wall of soil-filled shipping containers stacked two levels high. The swarms of Afghan laborers say they don't know what they're building. American engineers shoo away anyone who asks about it. But members of the palace guard, charged with protecting President Hamid Karzai, say the construction sits above an aging bunker complex and that U.S. forces from the 769th Engineer Battalion are refashioning it for the President. "We're building an underground bunker for Karzai...