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Roman" ><A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Transcript of Bin Laden Tape"><U><B>CLICK HERE</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="entertainment____oscar_watch_2002"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Entertainment -- Oscar Watch 2002</B></I></div> <div> <I>by </I><A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Angela Sauceda"><U><I>Angela Sauceda</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >Los Angeles -- </FONT>The Oscar year is almost over, and the movie studios are trying to scrunch in a few last minute films.  This year's moviegoers are pretty much content with all the films that have appeared in their local theaters.  This year has seen a few big box office hits, such as the boisterously entertaining <B>Shrek</B>, the colorful and unique <B>Moulin Rouge</B>, and the enchanted <B>Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone</B>.  The 2001 Oscar year will end at midnight on December 31, 2001.  The ballots will be turned in mid-February, leaving many anxious producers, directors, actors, and moviegoers waiting for the winners. </div> <bR> <div>      There are many films that have been considered for the Best Picture nomination.  <B>In the Bedroom</B> and <B>Moulin Rouge</B> are shoe-ins this category.  Some other movies being considered for a nomination are: <B>Ali, A Beautiful Mind, The Fellowship of the Ring, </B>and <B>Shrek</B>.  Although three of these movies have yet to hit theaters they are being taken into account for a nomination. </div> <bR> <div>      There are many fine actors in Hollywood today, which it is why it is difficult to choose just one.  Some actors that are being predicted for a nomination for Best Actor are: <B>Denzel Washington (Training Day), Kevin Kline (Life as a House), Guy Pearce (Momento), Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Gene Hackman (Royal Tenenbaums), and Will Smith (Ali). </B></div> <bR> <div>      The Best Actress is a long awaited category during the ceremony.  This years predicted nominees are: <B>Nicole Kidman (The Others, Moulin Rouge), Sissy Spacek (In the Bedroom), Audrey Tautou (Amelie), Renee Zellweger (Bridget Jones's Diary), Halle Berry (Monster's Ball), </B>and <B>Cate Blanchett (Charlotte Gray).</B> </div> <bR> <div> This year's predicted Supporting Actor category contains a very talented group of professional actors.  They include: <B>Danny De Vito (Heist), Ben Kingsley (Sexy Beast), Robbie Coltrane (Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone), Jamie Foxx (Ali), Jim Broadbent (Iris), </B>and <B>Carl Reiner (Ocean's Eleven)</B>. </div> <bR> <div>      For the Supporting Actress award there an assemblage of many intelligent and gifted women.  The foreseen nominees are: <B>Gwyneth Paltrow (Royal Tenenbaums), Naomi Watts (Mulholland Drive), Frances O'Connor (A.I.), Carrie-Ann Moss (Momento), Cate Blanchett (Lord of the Rings), </B>and last year's winner <B>Marissa Tomei (In the Bedroom)</B>. </div> <bR> <div>      If you receive the award for Best Director in a feature film, it is considered one of the highest honors in Hollywood.  These film geniuses include: <B>Todd Field (In the Bedroom), Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie), Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge), David Lynch (Mulholland Drive), Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), Michael Mann (Ali), </B>and <B>Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down)</B>. </div> <bR> <div>      The Hollywood pundits (or as I like to call them "Grammar Buffs") are predicting the nominations for Original Screenplay will include: <B>Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie), Joel And Eathan Coen (The Man Who Wasn't There), Robert Festinger/Todd Field (In the Bedroom), David Mamet (Heist), </B>and <B>Christopher Nolan (Momento)</B>. </div> <bR> <div>      This year the Academy Awards will have a new home right on Hollywood Blvd. in the new Kodak Theatre, which is located a few blocks from Mann's Chinese Theatre.  Don't forget to watch the Oscar's on March 24, 2002! </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>TERRORIST STRIKE IN ISRAEL; PA TO SHUT DOWN HAMAS & ISLAMIC JIHAD!</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >Jerusalem, Israel -- </FONT>A Hamas terrorist attack in Israel today, has left at least ten dead and thirty injured.  The Hamas gunman ambushed the bus and began firing.  A bomb was also set off near the bus, which was departing from Tel Aviv.  In the mean time, Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, told the public that he would continue his "targeted attacks" of terrorists.  On the Palestinian side, Arafat has declared they are going to close all offices and institutions of the Islamic Jihad and Hamas.  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >More to come.</FONT>   <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" > </FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> <A NAME="commentary____journalists_are_heroes_too"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></I><I><B>Commentary -- Journalists Are Heroes Too</B></I></div> <div> <I>by </I><A HREF="id52.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Giovani Benitez"><U><I>Giovani Benitez</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Miami, Florida --  <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >Even as a student journalist, I know that journalism is not an easy field of work.  I have a passion for both broadcast journalism and print journalism.  Certainly many other people feel that way as well, but some of us seem to forget how important journalists really are.</FONT></div> <div>         </div> <div>         Journalists are heroes too.  They bring us the information up-to-the-minute, live, risking and endangering their lives, like MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield in Kabul, Afghanistan.  She, and the rest of her NBC News crew, went through the same route those four journalists took when they were killed in November.  Ashleigh sent me an e-mail before she left to the Middle-East promising she</div> <div> would be safe, however, after those four journalists were killed, a new perspective of the journalistic world was born within me.  It's not just a job about gaining prominence.  It's not just a job about making money.  It's a job about the people and for the people. It's a job about communicating with America.  It's a job about doing anything it takes to inform the public.</div> <div>       </div> <div>        Recently, in Newsweek magazine, Chris Matthews, host of "Hardball" on MSNBC, wrote an article titled "Coming together in an age of 24/7."  Matthews explained how some percentage of the American people believe that the news media is overdoing the WTC tragedy and on the after effects of September 11th.  Just a few questions came to mind as I was reading that piece.  Who would be there if it weren't for the media?  Who could possibly let you know about what was going on in a faraway land if it wasn't the media?  Maybe you could find that information somewhere online, but it was probably still a journalist who wrote that report.</div> <bR> <div>         So why aren't many people appreciating what journalists are doing?  Is it that the television graphics are overpowering journalists?  Is it that people find news boring now?  Or maybe it is because viewers and readers are just not appreciating what journalists do anymore.</div> <bR> <div>        More journalists have died covering the war than American troops have fighti   in it.  What harm did those journalists do?  They were just there helping their people and their communities.</div> <bR> <div>        Using Operation Enduring Freedom as an example, their lives and jobs are very important, just as the ones of those soldiers out there.  The journalist's job is just as important as the soldier's is.  Some of us need to realize that.  In recent events, the journalist's job has proven to be riskier than the fighters in some cases, so let's give them more credit and stop complaining about the coverage.</div> <bR> <div> <I>This views expressed in this commentary are held solely by the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the official organization.</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>US To Reveal Video Evidence of Bin Laden's Guilt</B></I></div> <div> White House, Washington <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >(8:00) -- </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >President Bush has said that the White House will release a video from Osama Bin Laden on Wednesday clearly displaying his guilt to the world.  Several high-level sources suggest it will be released on 12th of December, after the government has had a chance to independently translate it.  This video was taken from the Islamic television network, Al Jazeera.  This news has come on the same day that the Eastern Alliance claims to have al Qaida and Bin Laden "boxed" in a 1.5 square mile area.  </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0033" FACE="Times New Roman" >More details to come as they are divulged!</FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <div align=center> <applet codebase=http://app.quotemedia.com/static/bravenet/vnews code=vnews.class width=400 height=250 MAYSCRIPT> <param name=backColor value='#ffffff'> <param name=borderColor value='#3366CC'> <param name=headerBackColor0 value='#000080'> <param name=headerBackColor1 value='#000080'> <param name=headerBackColor2 value='#000080'> <param name=headerBackColor3 value='#000080'> <param name=headerBackColor4 value='#000080'> <param name=newsColor value='#000000'> <param name=newsHLColor value='#0000ff'> <param name=headerColor0 value='#ffffff'> <param name=headerHLColor0 value='#008000'> <param name=headerColor1 value='#ffffff'> <param name=headerHLColor1 value='#008000'> <param name=headerColor2 value='#ffffff'> <param name=headerHLColor2 value='#008000'> <param name=headerColor3 value='#ffffff'> <param name=headerHLColor3 value='#008000'> <param name=headerColor4 value='#ffffff'> <param name=headerHLColor4 value='#008000'> <param name=borderWidth value=0> <param name=newsFontSize value=10> <param name=newsFont value='Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif'> <param name=headerFontSize value=12> <param name=headerFont value='Arial,Helvetica, sans-serif'> <param name=usernum value=3858133392> <param name=topics value=LATE+BREAKING,NATIONAL+NEWS,ENTERTAINMENT,> <param name=client value=bravenet> <param name=clientlink value=http://www.bravenet.com/quotemedia/register-main.php> </applet><font face='verdana' size='1'><a href='http://www.bravenet.com'>Powered by Bravenet</a></font> </div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   <form method="post" action="http://www.weather.com/cgi-bin/uncgi/zip_city_search.cgi?par=trellix&site=magnet&code=500379&promo=english" target="_top"> <table> <tr><td> <font face="arial,helvetica" color="#004371" size="2">    Enter a City or US Zip: </font> </td><td> <input type="text" name="destination" size="8" value="">  <input type="image" src="http://image.weather.com/pics/button_go.gif" width="26" height="23" border="0" alt="go!" value="Go City"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <a href="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/redirect_magnet?loc_id=USMA0492&par=trellix&site=magnet&code=500379&promo=english" target="_top"> <img border="1" width="270" height="140" src="http://oap.weather.com/fcgi-bin/oap/generate_magnet?loc_id=USMA0492&code=500379"></a> </td></tr> </table></form>   </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   <script language="JavaScript"> /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = ""; /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; </script> <script src="http://code.superstats.com/code/ss/tvoice/0/30b"> </script><script language="JavaScript"> br = navigator.appName + parseInt(navigator.appVersion); if (code != ' ' || br == 'Netscape2') document.write(code); else document.write('<a' + ' href="http://stats.superstats.com/c/ss/tvoice" target="_top"><im'+'g' + ' src="http://stats.superstats.com/b/ss/tvoice/1' + '?pageName=' + escape(pageName) + '" border=0></a>'); document.write('<'); document.write('!-- '); </script><noscript><a href="http://stats.superstats.com/c/ss/tvoice" target="_top"><img src="http://stats.superstats.com/b/ss/tvoice/1" border=0></a></noscript> <script language="JavaScript"> document.write(' --'); document.write('>'); </script>   </div> </td> </tr></table></body>