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...films on this year's Oscar ballot, nominated for Best Picture, Directing, Supporting Actor and Actress and Lead Actor. That last category has Michael Clayton star George Clooney going head to head with some worthy competitors, including a heavily favored Daniel Day-Lewis. Clooney himself thinks he has no shot to win. We, at TIME, beg to differ. Director Tony Gilroy offers his thoughts on his leading man and makes, if not a compelling case for a win, a case to put him down in your Oscar pool on principle...
...Housman drives the lane after Harvard runs down the shot clock. He can't convert the layin, but freshman Kyle Fitzgerald tips it in! Harvard's on a 15-0 run, and Fitzgerald's a big reason for the Crimson lead. I wouldn't have predicted this... Harvard 68, Princeton...
...West. In Pakistan, the battle for the soul of Islam will determine the country's place in the world: whether it can take the lead as a modern Muslim nation, or whether it crumbles under the forces of extremism. This is Pakistan's holy war, and the first shot across the bow was the very idea that brought the country into being...
...national head-to-head polls show Obama with only a single-digit lead over McCain; McCain and Clinton are tied. More important, McCain retains a favorable rating, according to USA Today/Gallup, that stands a full 13 points ahead of the Republican Party. Those close to him see a real shot at picking up longtime blue states on the West Coast (Oregon and Washington), the Midwest (Minnesota and Wisconsin) and New England (Maine and Connecticut...
...does the movie end? Possibly with a long shot of Bill Clinton - his once shaggy hair now an aura of white - driving down a lonely East Texas road. He was born not far from there, across the state line in Arkansas, and from 1972 onward, he has nursed the belief that he might somehow reconnect the working-class whites of that region to the Democratic Party. Scant luck so far. But he was still at it in advance of the Texas vote, stumping through places like Tyler and Lufkin and Texarkana and Nacogdoches - proving that the Clintons still believe...