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Fast Forward 41% Say Steven Spielberg Will Win Best Director Oscar for ‘Lincoln’
American filmmaker Steven Spielberg is clear favorite among the public to win the best director award for his film about President Abraham Lincoln at the Academy Awards this year, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday. While the race to win best film at the Feb. 24 ceremony was shaken up by “Argo” stealing the thunder…
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Fast Forward As Chuck Hagel Confirmation Hearing Looms, New Push for Pentagon Pick
As Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s nominee to lead the Pentagon, prepared to meet with senior New York Senator Chuck Schumer in mid-January, the White House stepped in and ensured that the get-together would take place quickly – and in the West Wing. Some of the loudest objections to Obama’s choice of Hagel for secretary…
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Fast Forward Israel Forks Over $100M in Palestinian Tax Cash
Israel will give Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s administration around $100 million in tax revenues that had been withheld in retaliation for his statehood bid in the United Nations, Israeli officials said on Wednesday. They described the handover as a one-time deal, signalling rightist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not formally scrapped sanctions that have…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Wins Confirmation as Secretary of State
John Kerry’s nomination as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of state sailed through the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, as his fellow senators voted overwhelmingly to confirm him to replace Hillary Clinton as the country’s top diplomat. The vote was 94-3 in favor. The two senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, and Oklahoma Senator…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Cruises to 94-3 Senate Confirmation Vote
John Kerry’s nomination as President Barack Obama’s new secretary of state sailed through the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, as his fellow senators voted overwhelmingly to confirm him to replace Hillary Clinton as the country’s top diplomat. The vote was 94-3 in favor. The two senators from Texas, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, and Oklahoma Senator…
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News Al Gore Says Stiff Competition Forced Sale of TV Network to Al Jazeera
Al Gore said on Tuesday that tough competition from major U.S. television networks forced him to sell Current TV, a struggling progressive cable channel, to Al Jazeera, and he praised the Arabic news broadcaster’s coverage of climate change. Gore, a former vice president who won a Nobel Peace Prize for raising awareness about the problems…
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Fast Forward Israel Boycotts United Nations Review of Human Rights Record
Israel boycotted a U.N. human rights forum on Tuesday where it was due to have its record reviewed, setting a precedent that concerns rights activists and many Western nations. The president of the Human Rights Council, Poland’s ambassador Remigiusz Henczel, noted the absence of the Israeli delegation and ordered the meeting suspended briefly to decide…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Cheer Oscar Nod for Anti-Occupation Film ‘5 Broken Cameras’
Oscar-nominated documentary “5 Broken Cameras” screened for Palestinians for the first time on Monday, leaving locals hopeful that their struggle with Israel for land and statehood will gain a global audience. The low-cost film is based on five years of amateur camera work by journalist Emad Burnat as he documented weekly protests against land seizures…
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