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Dreamgirls is nominated for eight Academy Awards, but not for Best Picture. Babel, which is among five nominees for the top film, earns seven nominations.

France has an answer for America's 24-hour news channels. The country is launching a TV-news service of its own. France 24 is a partnership between a commercial network and the state-run France Televisions. It'll feature two news channels, one in French, and the other primarily in English.

The head of the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla -- Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman -- is the author of a new book. It’s called “Second Nature: The Brain and Human Knowledge.” In it, Edelman expla

Rewind is a powerful cantata that mixes song with recorded testimony from South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The voices range from sorrowful relatives of murder victims to members of the security police describing torture techniques. Rewind premieres in December at St. George's Cathedral in Capetown.

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A Republican congressman linked to tainted lobbyist Jack Abramoff is expected to plead guilty to at least one criminal charge. Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio has been the focus of a Justice Department investigation for more than a year. A guilty plea could come as early as Friday.

Which legal decisions can be used as a precedent, and which cannot? The question was raised in a piece in The New York Times this week about the Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 election. Legal commentator Mimi Wesson discusses the issue with Liane Hansen.

During WWII, hundreds of prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia performed Verdi's Requiem as a way to passively defy their Nazi captors. On Sunday, American musicians performed the same requiem in the former Nazi camp as a tribute to Terezin's victims and survivors.

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A few miles from the Turkish border, in the former mining town of Vale, stands the House of Culture. Once the heart of the community, the huge structure is now a monument to post-Soviet decline. One flamboyant resident of Vale, known by locals as "Uncle Gocha," has worked without pay for 15 years to keep what's left from collapsing.