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...Arts and Sciences announced last summer that it would move this year’s Oscars ceremony from the doldrums of March to the high-profile TV sweeps month of February, few could have predicted the staggering impact that the move would have on this year’s slate of Oscar nominees. In the days before this year’s nominations, network pundits were predicting big things for high-profile December openers like Cold Mountain and The Last Samurai. But when the nominees were revealed on January 27, both movies fared poorly, leaving the likes...
...Academy voters would largely ignore the year’s holiday releases. At the same time, the nominees that the voters selected to replace these spurned December brides were utterly unpredictable. In a normal year, there are only one or two major surprises in a slate of Oscar nominees—think Robert Forster for Jackie Brown, Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her, or Ethan Hawke for Training...
...that we have a candidate for President who says what he really means. Americans in the heartland of the country are sick and tired of Washington's Beltway-speak. Dean addresses issues like health care and aid for higher education. He is a bright light in an otherwise dim slate of candidates. And by the way, not all of Dean's supporters are young. I am a 63-year-old grandmother who has given money to a candidate for the very first time. Marian Kunetka Fayetteville, U.S. Spy vs. Spy Re your report on John Le Carr?'s new book...
Health officials have long been worried that the next deadly global epidemic--a slate wiper, as epidemiologists call it--would be a new kind of deadly flu to which humans have no resistance. And since the 1960s, their fears have been focused on the H5N1 virus, a bird pathogen that is generally harmless in its host species (ducks and other wildfowl) but extremely deadly when contracted by chickens. It was H5N1 that struck Hong Kong in 1997, where it went straight from chickens to humans. Authorities quickly killed 1.4 million birds, and although six people died, the disease never managed...
...trying alternatives that might be equally effective, like electronic tagging and intensive surveillance, or giving prosecutors more tools to convict terrorists in open court, like admitting wiretap evidence. Many think Blunkett is already planning to retreat to this safer ground. Outside the courthouse where Mzoudi was acquitted stands a slate-gray stone monument inscribed simply, "1933." A nearby plaque remembers those "abused, killed and treated with contempt by the judges and prosecutors" of Hamburg during the Third Reich. It is a reminder that the law can destroy as well as protect, and that even in the age of terror...