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...CHANGE." He has promised Britons "change [they] can believe in" and at the launch reworked another familiar phrase, saying, "Yes we can ... make things better without spending more money." Prime Minister Gordon Brown, meanwhile, chose a rural backdrop for Labour's manifesto unveiling on Monday: a sunlit cornfield, the grain undulating in a virtual breeze. Britain? This looked more like Oklahoma. (See pictures of the U.K. election campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Election: Raiding the Obama Playbook | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...Games of Love and Chance” was a triumphant critical success, winning four prizes—including Best Film, Best Director, Best Writing, and Most Promising Actress—at the César Awards in France. His subsequent movie, “The Secret of the Grain,” released in 2007, achieved even stronger critical acclaim. Along with the same four César prizes rewarded to “Games of Love and Chances,” it also received three others at the Venice Film Festival, including the Special Jury Prize...

Author: By Shijung Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kechiche Shows Harvard Film Archive Some 'Love' | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...experience as a conservative in the traditionally liberal communities of Harvard and Cambridge also had an “instigating effect” on his interest in running for office as a Republican, Stopa said. But he added he often does not discuss his against-the-grain political views with his liberal colleagues...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Physicist Runs For Congress | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Overall, the consensus was to lose the bag and the necklace and keep the dress. We appreciate the advice, but we caution other users to take it with a grain of salt. Regardless of what you end up wearing, own it and flaunt it, and the night will be yours...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: What To Wear Is Now So Much Easier | 3/22/2010 | See Source »

...anger that resulted in Scott Brown’s victory, Obama tried to tap into it, but his efforts necessarily failed; as an elected official, he was a participant in the Washington culture that the Tea Partiers despised, and the rest of Americans took his dramatic proclamations with the grain of salt most populism deserves. In other words, his plans and his populist rhetoric appealed to no one, least of all the Senate now blocking the proposed bank legislation...

Author: By Peter M. Bozzo | Title: Obama’s Tea Party | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

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