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...young animator named Fred Moore gave Mickey his first makeover. Earlier animators had drawn the mouse as a series of circles, which limited his movement. Moore - who later animated Fantasia's Sorcerer's Apprentice segment - gave him a pear-shaped body, pupils, white gloves and a shortened nose, to make him cuter. Mickey also appeared in color for the first time that year; The Band Concert's use of Technicolor was so innovative that critics still consider it to be a masterpiece. (Click here for a list of the All-TIME 100 Movies...
...over the next five to ten years? We will probably increase our presence in developing countries. For these past 10 years our focus has been on existing markets. We've entered only two new markets in 10 years time: Portugal and Japan. That's very little compared to our earlier history. That will change quite a lot over the next 10 years. We'll see seven or eight new markets being opened up in that time frame, 90% in developing countries. I hope India will be on the map, and on this continent maybe Mexico. We also have a goal...
...mettle tested—and conference title locked up—with a 1-0 double-overtime victory over Hofstra in the Colonial Athletic Association championship game last week. So while the teams were mentally prepared for the extra sessions, their play lacked the crispness that was on display earlier in the game.“It was a physical contest at the end of a long season,” Harvard coach Ray Leone said. As the final minutes of regulation and overtime wore on, fatigue was palpable on both sides. It didn’t help that...
...across the border to France in 2002, and rose quickly through ETA's hierarchy. He is believed to have ordered the December 2006 bombing of a car park at Madrid's Barajas airport, which killed two people and put a definite end to the ceasefire the group had declared earlier that year. Other ETA members now in police custody have testified that he personally pulled the trigger on two Spanish Civil Guards assassinated in the French Atlantic seaboard village of Capbreton in January...
...Certainly there is political momentum among the leftist advocates of Basque independence known as the izquierda abertzale. Although Batasuna, the now illegal party affiliated with ETA, won't be running in March 2009 regional elections, its supporters have a new option. Earlier this month, the left-leaning nationalist political party Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) which had previously belonged to a coalition with the ruling Basque Nationalist Party, announced that it would run on its own. Having already received the support of a former secretary of the Batasuna-linked trade union LAB, ETA could well draw votes from radicals that might otherwise...