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...truly unexpected event, though, came in the Outstanding British Film category. The inclusion of heavyweight Slumdog among the five nominees seemed almost unfair, as if Stephen Hawking were to show up at your local pub quiz. Everyone was so busy assuming that Slumdog would walk away with the prize, it took a moment to register when Sharon Stone announced that Man on Wire - the critically acclaimed documentary about Frenchman Philip Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers - had actually nabbed the BAFTA. The film's director James Marsh was so unprepared that when he hopped onto...
...before he would bring the package to the floor for a vote. "As I have explained to people in that group, they cannot hold the President of the United States hostage," said Reid. "If they think they're going to rewrite this bill and Barack Obama is going to walk away from what he is trying to do for the American people, they've got another thought coming...
...nuclear-proliferation scandal, the disgraced nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan has been set free after securing a surprise court triumph. Bowing to a six-week-old request that he be released from house arrest, the Islamabad High Court on Friday declared Khan "a free citizen," allowing him to walk out of his prolonged sentence. Moments after the decision, the man who in 2004 tumbled from grace after admitting to hawking nuclear secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea stepped out onto the front porch of his Islamabad home to hail the court order. Dressed in a navy blue shirt...
...Week on “Wheel of Fortune”—Dupri drives, since Bow Wow still doesn’t have his permit—the two “true friends” proclaim their multi-faceted similarities. “We walk just alike, talk just alike,” they observe, and even have “the same damn swagger when we rock up on the mic.” Bow Wow, however, seems a little unfocused on this lovefest as fantasies of blue-tinted women run through his head. And where...
...Easter Sunday of 2008, 11-year-old Kara Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin, suffered waves of nausea as she lay motionless on her deathbed, too weak to walk or speak. Kara's parents - both followers of the Unleavened Bread Ministries, an online church that shuns medical intervention - knelt in prayer beside their dying daughter. They did not call a doctor for help. A few hours later, Kara died of diabetes, a relatively common - and treatable - condition...