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“Slumdog Millionaire” bagged eight Academy (Oscar) awards out of the nine categories it was nominated in (In one category, two nominations were there making it a total of ten nominations). So, where is the big deal? The Oscars are given every year....
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Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Great Depression, by...
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The Anti-Defamation League is one of the most phony organizations in the world. Ostensibly committed to fighting bigotry, it has become a bigoted organization. Its sole...
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Yesterday I was driving to work when I heard about the standoff between three unidentified gunmen and the US army. This was happening not at some university, hospital,...
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Arlington Cemetery is the closest thing to holy ground in America. A national monument it is the nation’s most important military burial ground.
A new book - On...
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For the first time in a decade, the U.S. is reviewing the endangered status of the humpback whale, prompted by evidence that these acrobatic leviathans — once...
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One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his...
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Reporting from Washington - As President Obama struggles over a new military strategy for Afghanistan, his advisors are trying to satisfy sharply divergent demands:...
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Jennifer Smith, a Texas real estate agent, remembers when she considered her car an office, her cellphone a professional lifeline. If it rang, she picked it up. If she...
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Who is Nidal Malik Hasan?
What’s in a name? Very, very little—particularly when it comes to divining the motivations of the perpetrator of a violent crime. But that...
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No Zionist cause is too extreme and violent for mainstream support in America. Generic pro-Israel fundraisers are one thing, but support for illegal Israeli settlers on...
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President Barack Obama came to office with great enthusiasm to finally end the Israeli occupation of Palestine and bring about a two-state solution: Peace.
The...
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She is known for her unconventional choices and now US first lady Michelle Obama is setting another precedent by the first presidential
wife to appear on a reality TV...
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A US army major has opened fire on fellow soldiers at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, with death toll now standing at 12, with 30 injured.
Base commander Lt Gen...
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Barack Obama and his Democratic Party were given clear warning yesterday that they face a potentially disastrous 2010 after big Republican victories on Tuesday...
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Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads – and President Barack Obama’s lack of engagement – for a bitter election...
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Something is not right here, means having sex with animals shows that that person is mentally sick or imbalanced. This south Carolina man sure is one of them. He loves...
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As though the world isn’t messed up enough with struggling world economies, violence everywhere, we also have Muslim extremism infecting the world with fear. ...
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Friends, blogging provides incentives. It’s a tree whose fruits are to be tasted. Let the time be ripened. There’s little chance of getting disheartened if we work...
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A convicted rapist living in an Ohio home where several bodies have been found has been charged with five counts of aggravated murder, US police say.
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The 2009 election has come and gone. Once again, the media and their political analysts have failed in their assessment of what would happen.
They are going to also...
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The movie “Slumdog Millionaire” made India proud at the Oscars and has also put the slums of the country before the world’s audience. Does government...
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A.R.REHMAN AND MULTIPLE ORDER THINKING
I practice a kind of thinking called multiple order thinking. This means that I try to go beyond the obvious and the apparent....
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Media allegations have accused the film of being ‘poverty porn’ and also that glamorising slum life appeared deliberately placed to play on the liberal guilt of...
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It’s the biggest fashion show of the year,half fun of the Oscar is watching the stars come down the red carpet in their designer gowns,good taste is fine, but...
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This was not easy, but here you go - the top 10 hottest celebrities that stepped on the Oscar’s 81st Annual Academy Awards Red Carpet.
The celebrities that didn’t...
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button dominated the Oscar nominations today as the film received 13 nominations; including Best Picture and Best Actor for Brad Pitt.
I...
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Taare jameen Par- our entry for Oscars is a right choice. It had a strong contender in Jodhaa Akbar but thankfully it won. I am saying thankfully because Jodha Akbar is...
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DON’T get excited fellas - here’s one naked bird you might not want to cosy up to. Oscar the female cockatoo is an internet hit as she chats away - in the...
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Japanese actor Masahiro Motoki, left, and film director Yojiro Takita shows off the Oscar during a news conference in Tokyo Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009. Takita’s film “Departures, ” a film about a classical musician who prepares bodies for burial, won the...
