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...crowd, packed into the cavernous Air Canada Centre arena in downtown Toronto last Friday night, had been trying to control their excitement as the moment approached when their hero was to take the stage. A rock star of politics, he didn't disappoint. Clad in the distinctive garb that has made him famous worldwide, he challenged the audience to remember those suffering under the burden of crippling debt or dying from AIDS. But Canada, he said, with a most un-Canadian sense of self-congratulation, was alive with a sense of idealism. When he finished his speech, his rapturous fans...
...think especially for a Monday night, a club downtown, 450 is really good,” Hersh said...
...chest. All that remains of them now are prickly halos of hair that surround several centimeters of split, swollen scalp. The 40-year-old postal clerk and member of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions was among the first to arrive last month outside the governor's office in downtown Bulawayo for a peaceful protest against Zimbabwe's high taxes and cost of living. Several dozen demonstrators had barely begun to gather when police charged the crowd. Khumalo received two cracks to the head before police officers dragged him by his dreadlocks for nearly a kilometer, until they reached...
...writing and production staff has been trying, above all, to firmly ground the show’s often exaggerated, ridiculous action on a foundation that’s distinctly Harvard. The show will be filmed on campus, so viewers can expect to see familiar Harvard Yard and downtown Cambridge settings in the background. However, according to Presser, artificial sets have been constructed to resemble libraries and dorm rooms, environments that may not otherwise be available for filming...
Outside the building, hundreds of supporters without tickets to the show waved signs and cheered for their candidate of choice in a frenzy that echoed for blocks in downtown Boston...