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• 10 'BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN' Leads with eight Oscar nominations, all among the most desirable: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. Expect a lot of cowboys on stage March 5.
• 8 MARK BURNETT King of Reality TV moves into developing multichannel contest for AOL and Yahoo, calling office Web cruisers from 9 to 5 the next prime time.
• 5 GOOGLE Gets a reality check as earnings fall below the Street's (outsized) expectations. Also accused of theft by European publishers and chastised for cooperating with China, while analysts worry keyword prices may fall.
• 3 DISH After a protracted battle over carriage fees with Lifetime-which resulted in the women-oriented cablers being dropped from Dish and protests from women's groups-the satellite provider reinstates them.

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Edited by Ann Marie Kerwin