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...critical charge that helped propel Halle Berry to her Monster’s Ball Oscar two years ago. And if Return of the King doesn’t win Best Picture (and director Peter Jackson doesn’t win Best Director), it’ll be the biggest upset since Miramax bought the 1999 Best Picture Oscar for Shakespeare in Love...
...history? There are hard favorites this year in every one of the big six categories—and I can’t remember the last year when that was the case. It’s hard to imagine Mystic River’s Sean Penn being upset for Best Actor, by Bill Murray or by anybody else; Penn’s been nominated four times, so he’d be due even if Academy voters didn’t already see him as his generation’s greatest talent. Renee Zellweger?...
Solis said that Fonseca held himself to very high standards. He recalled that when Fonseca was in middle school, he became so upset after receiving a grade of B that he had to see a therapist...
...occupied Iraq into the front line of the global jihad. The memo, whose discovery was first reported by the New York Times, expresses frustration that the fight in Iraq has not been more successful as well as concern that it will soon fail. But, as a final strategy to upset U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq, the memo suggests provoking strife between the country's two main religious factions--the Sunnis and the Shi'ites--through attacks on Shi'ites, who would then presumably strike back at Sunnis. Shi'ite-Sunni discord is already problem enough for U.S. occupation authorities without...
...bill that forbids the state to spend any of its money to meet the law's requirements. No Child Left Behind has declared more than 6,000 schools failing and, the states say, imposed on them millions in costs to create new tests and accountability systems. Critics are upset about those costs and the difficulty of getting exemptions to the policy, even though many schools argue that they are failing only because a few students with special needs aren't making...