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...immediately after Barack Obama's election-night victory, Kohono Mossman's voice mail began filling up with requests for tickets. Born and raised on Maui and now a Pentagon consultant, Mossman, 26, suddenly finds himself in charge of the hottest ticket in town as chairman of the Hawaii Inaugural ball, put on by the 400-member Hawaii State Society of Washington, D.C. He sold out the 900 tickets (at $200 each) three days after Obama's victory. It is the very first Inaugural ball thrown by the state, which proudly holds the title of the place where Obama was born...
...spite of the excitement over the Inaugural ball, Hawaii has a bit of a chip on its shoulder. Obama, after all, is a Senator from Illinois, and the incoming President comes off as more a Land of Lincolner than a son of the Aloha State. It's been that way throughout his political career. For example, it took more than a year of watching Obama play poker in "the Committee Meeting" - the nickname that Illinois state senators gave their regular, after-hours poker games - for legislator Denny Jacobs to notice Obama's occasional offhand references to Hawaii's nearly year...
...hermetically sealed world.” Many of Hannah’s pieces carry an air of nostalgia and a sense of times long past. “Kickball,” for example, portrays the longing for childhood as three boys in old-fashioned attire kick around a ball. “Duncan Hannah’s work is a curious mixture of subtle and strong emotion and superficial triviality,” says John Wronoski, the owner of the Pierre Menard Gallery. “His paintings are a kind of iconography to reflect his emotions and important...
...very certain way—has paid off. Screaming through its 106-minute runtime (the shortest ever for a Bond film), “Quantum of Solace” isn’t weighed down by politics or melodrama. Director Marc Forster (“Monster’s Ball,” “Finding Neverland”) tears through a refreshingly uncomplicated plot that has something to do with water shortages in exotic places—an excuse for Bond to blow things up on three different continents—and swaps out melodrama for the real...
...only 78 yards, the running game was stifled by Columbia’s front line, but the home team was never truly threatened. Taking the lead in the first quarter, the Lions held it for a total of 20 seconds before falling permanently behind.On the other side of the ball, Harvard gave up the most points it has all season, but it capitalized on numerous Columbia mistakes, including three interceptions and a fumble recovery for a touchdown.Boasting the league’s top ranking in both total and passing defense, Penn should present quite a match-up for the Crimson...