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...annual Festival of Animation returns to the Cambridge area at the Somerville Theater this weekend for a two-week run. To be featured at this sampling extravaganza of animated subjects will be the Canadian award-winning The Crow and the Canary, 25 Ways to Quit Smoking, Bill Plympton's look at how to shed the deadly habit, and award winning graphicist John Lasseter's computer-generated Knick Knack. The Festival of Animation is known internationally as one of the best showcases for the most recent creations in animation. This year's show also highlights The Hill Farm, which took...
Unfortunately, it's too much even to take the universities' ethical claim of avoiding a "bidding war" at face value. First use common sense. When setting financial aid packages together, the overlap group of schools is plainly more likely to decide on a lower award, not a higher one. The whole point of meeting is of course to save money...
Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman Egil Aarvik admitted the choice could be interpreted that way. "If I were a Chinese student, I would be fully in support of the decision," he told reporters. The Chinese embassy in Oslo read it the same way. It denounced the award as an intervention in China's internal affairs. Wang Guisheng, the embassy press attache, accused the Dalai Lama of "subverting the unity of the nation...
...Dalai Lama's headquarters in Dharmsala, India, news of the award prompted 1,000 exiled Tibetans to dance in the streets. "It is a victory for oppressed people everywhere," read an official statement. The Dalai Lama, attending a spiritual conference in Newport Beach, Calif., responded to the fuss with characteristic humility. "My case is nothing special," he said. "I am a simple Buddhist monk -- no more, no less." Authorities in Beijing, who have been struggling to convey an image of national calm and restored normality, only wish that were true...
...head for home? "When it was too dark to tell red wine from white." When Gage describes the bread tax that early immigrants levied to support their new churches, one can taste the crust. His father's humiliations are palpable. So is his pride when his son receives an award from John F. Kennedy at the White House...