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...That's why our program directors have their jobs: to pick the best music people want to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Take on Radio | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...rather, the little categories. Even if all your coworkers pick the acting and directing winners, you can take the pot if you ace the minor categories. But, again, that?s tougher this time. In almost every other year, the favorite is a film with the kind of glossy production values that earn it nominations, and wins, in the frou-frou categories: art direction, costumes and, if the actors run around a bit, editing. No such easy marks this time. Look for Memoirs of a Geisha, a critical and box office disappointment but seemingly run off from the Academy template...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Win Your Oscar Pool | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...roughly 500 detainees held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, none is more notorious than Mohammad al-Qahtani, the so-called "20th hijacker." Only weeks before 9/11, he tried to enter the U.S. illegally in Orlando, Fla., while the plot's leader, Mohammad Atta, waited to pick him up in the airport parking lot. As the Pentagon has said, "Had al-Qahtani succeeded in entering the U.S., it is believed he would have been on United Airlines Flight 93, the only hijacked aircraft that had four hijackers instead of five [and the one that ended up crashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exclusive: '20th Hijacker' Claims That Torture Made Him Lie | 3/3/2006 | See Source »

...course, Tony is not so flush that he can't walk into an eyeglass store owned by a civilian connected to his business, impose on him for a huge favor, then pick out a pair of Armani shades and say, "You know what? I left my wallet in the car." For Tony, the money is not the point. The point is not having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fortunate Son | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

...little harder. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Usually in the Quad making up the drunker half of the tragically named Team Cool. First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Whether she is comfortably divine or still controlled by the demons of anxiety. Your best pick-up line: I have to thank you for setting a good example for these other women. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: She didn’t mean that much to me. Favorite childhood toy: Legos. Sexiest physical trait: Nothing is sexier than the legs of a miler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoped! | 3/1/2006 | See Source »

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