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Joel and Ethan Coen are celebrating a big win. Their crime saga No Country for Old Men was the big winner at Sunday's Academy Awards, taking home four Oscars, including Best Picture.

Tell Me More remembers longtime civil rights activist Johnnie Rebecca Carr, who died Friday at the age of 97. Carr was a childhood friend of Rosa Parks, and led the Montgomery Improvement Association for decades. The organization was formed after Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the beginning of the Montgomery bus boycott.

The New York Philharmonic is in North Korea as part of a historic cultural exchange. The philharmonic is the first major American cultural group to visit the isolated communist nation. The group will perform a concert Tuesday night that will be aired on state-run radio and television.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are ramping up their campaigns across Texas and Ohio ahead of the states' March 4 Democratic primaries. But voters are focused on very different issues in the two states.

An online company is trying to convince some homeowners that losing their home might not be so bad. The Web site, youwalkaway.com, features pictures of happy families; it urges stressed-out homeowners to "use our proven method to Walk Away."

These Paul Tremblay stories — a wildly entertaining mix of literary horror, psychological suspense and science fiction — will be more than enough to make readers into immediate fans.

Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton last night met for their final debate before four primaries on March 4. They battled it out on topics including NAFTA, health care and Iraq. Clinton faces pressure to win big in Texas and Ohio in order to keep her presidential hopes alive.

The Supreme Court heard arguments from Exxon today that the amount the corporation has been ordered to pay as a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska is unreasonable. Critics say Exxon has not shown that it takes responsibility for the spill, since it has fired only one person over the incident: the captain of the Exxon Valdez.

Russian officials visited Serbia on Monday to lend support to the country's claim to Kosovo. Though the country is divided between hardline nationalists and those who are Western-leaning, the country is united in its feeling of anger and betrayal over Kosovo's independence.

The new league makes its debut near Dallas on Thursday when the Texas Super Kings play the LA Knight Riders. The league's backers hope to cultivate a new generation of U.S. cricketers.