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THE OSCAR FOR BEST HOBBIT IN A SUPPORTING ROLE GOES TO ... Peter Jackson's first third of the Lord of the Rings epic picks up 13 Oscar nominations, leading the pack this year. J.R.R. Tolkien, who died in 1973, likely didn't imagine this final twist in his novel's enduring and lucrative life

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"Our country shouldn't be catering to America's needs."
AHMED OMAR SAEED SHEIKH,
Pakistan-based radical, who admits to kidnapping Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, explaining his motivation

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250 million monarch butterflies were killed...

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