Word: cheerful
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...Perhaps the smiles were bravado. Or perhaps Tommy knows something the rest of us don't about the eventual verdict, which isn't expected for some months. In the meantime, his current quarters are comfortable enough to explain some of his apparent good cheer. His cell, one of three reserved for political prisoners, is cut off from the other 2,383 inmates at the Cipinang prison-the better for the five-hour conjugal visits with his wife that have received heavy coverage in the Jakarta press. He also enjoys such amenities as a private bathroom, a 21-inch television...
...Oscar race. After 9/11, surely Hollywood and the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would behave with dignity. They would nominate the films (in February), vote on the finalists (by this Tuesday), then assemble, suavely tuxed and Armanied, for the Oscarcast on Sunday. They would cheer as Ron Howard finally won a Best Director prize, for A Beautiful Mind. It would be a very Opie evening. And, please, no fighting...
...Number of Best Picture-nominated films sent to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to cheer them...
...foot or on horseback in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Italy. In France, where politicians antagonize rural folk at their peril, there are 440 hound packs - more than in Britain - to hunt everything from deer to foxes to boar; parties, parades and church masses are staged to cheer the hunts on. Says Yves Lecocq, secretary-general of the Brussels-based E.U. Federation of Associations for Hunting and Conservation, "The only country to ban hunting with hounds in Europe in recent history has been Nazi Germany - Hitler thought it cruel...
...Crimson had more to cheer about Sunday night when the seedings for the East and West Regionals were announced. Harvard is heading to the Centrum Center in Worcester as the east region’s No. 6 seed...