Magnum on the Oscars
Scorsese’s Oscar win ends long wait
Martin Scorsese was finally honoured by the Hollywood establishment at last night’s Oscars, while the acting crowns went to Helen Mirren for The Queen and Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland.
The Academy Awards, minute by minute
Oscars 2007: full list of winners and nominees
Full coverage: Oscars 2007
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Audi TT Coupe 2.0 4D T3
I know that my road test colleagues believe that BMW’s 3-Series coupé still has the beating of the TT dynamically. But really it’s a question of what you want from your coupé. For me, every time I drive the Audi is a special occasion - and you can’t ask for more than that.
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Patent row could hit MP3 industry
News that Microsoft has been fined for violating MP3 patents belonging to Alcatel-Lucent could have widespread fallout for the industry. Experts now suggest the US ruling could lead to hundreds of firms - including Apple and RealNetworks - being pursued for payments relating to the format.
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Why are movies getting so complicated?
Some of the directors may be just playing with us or, perhaps, acting out their boredom with that Hollywood script-conference menace the conventional “story arc.” But others may be trying to jolt us into a new understanding of art, or even a new understanding of life. In the past, mainstream audiences notoriously resisted being jolted. Are moviegoers bringing some new sensibility to these riddling movies? What are we getting out of the overloading, the dislocations and disruptions?
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Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?
Not long ago, the expansion of free trade worldwide seemed inevitable. Over the last few years, however, economic barriers have started to rise once more. The forecast for the future looks mixed: some integration will probably continue even as a new economic nationalism takes hold. Managing this new, muddled world will take deft handling, in Washington, Brussels, and Beijing.
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Land Rover Freelander
It almost feels harsh to say that a CR-V is a more rewarding drive, because the Honda’s such a road-biased machine. The Freelander’s steering’s sharpness is a bind on the motorway, too. Even the tiniest input elicits a sharp reaction from the initially soft springs, so motorway driving, despite leggy gearing and low noise levels, is less relaxing than it should be. Both CR-V and X3 are more comfortable over long distances.
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Unwilling Cyber-Porn Stars
The man calling on the phone didn’t introduce himself and got right to the point. He said he had just discovered this hot little video of her on the Internet, and that he would now of course like to have wild sex with her. Could he come by? At first Birgit H. thought the man who woke her up so rudely on a Sunday morning in October had simply dialled a number at random. But then she got calls from other strangers — hardly a coincidence. With the help of a lawyer, the 27-year-old discovered that a private film showing her in the shower had been published on an Internet forum for sexual contacts.
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