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We rounded up some smart reaction to this year's remarkably un-diverse Oscars nominees.

The Revenanthas a dozen nominations, followed by Mad Max: Fury Roadwith 10, and The Martianwith seven. The winners will be announced on Feb. 28.

Creed is billed as a Rocky spinoff but it's actually something more interesting. It's a spiritual remake of the 1976 film that retells the original story in an unexpected and involving way.

As a librarian and a reader, Nancy Pearl scours the shelves in search of hidden treasures — titles you may have missed. Her findings include two chilling thrillers, one exquisite 1960s memoir, a lively biography of George Orwell, an example of historical fiction at its very best, and much more fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

The bill would overturn the president's 2001 limits on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research. Bush is expected to nix it. Congress appears to lack the votes for an override, but the debate could have an impact on congressional elections in fall.

The House of Representatives will vote in coming days on whether to relax President Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. Anti-abortion groups oppose the bill, which would allow funding of research on embryos left over from in vitro fertilization. But support for the measure appears to be growing, even among some anti-abortion lawmakers.

To some, the traditional double-decker delicacy is an example of excess. To others, it's pure excellence.

A federal appeals court says President Bush does not have the constitutional authority to imprison a U.S. resident indefinitely and without charge, as in the case of Ali al-Marri. Al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar who was attending graduate school in Illinois when he was arrested in 2001.

In 2013, "you really feel as if directors are taking chances in their storytelling," says film critic David Edelstein. He loved the movie Her, and says the biggest surprises of the year were All Is Lost and Much Ado About Nothing. He also explains why 12 Years a Slave didn't make his top 10.

After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.