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...second time in three years, canceled dozens of flights and then misplaced an estimated 10,000 bags. Northwest Airlines kept about 280 travelers on a diverted plane for more than 14 hours straight. But Comair, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines based in Cincinnati, Ohio, may have won the Grinch Award: the airline canceled all 1,100 flights on Christmas Day because of what it said was a computer glitch...
Play patterns like this could Grinch another Christmas for the toy department. Through September, toy sales were down 5% compared with the first nine months of 2003, according to the NDP Group. Meanwhile, the video-game industry is heading for another record year, with sales of $12 billion in the U.S., up 7% over 2003, including consoles and PC titles. And thanks to hot new games like Halo 2 for the Xbox, the industry is light-years ahead of the toy business when it comes to buzz. With distractions such as instant messaging, cell-phone games and iPods angling...
Harvard’s oldest co-ed acapella group hosts their “How the Grinch Stole Jam.” Known for their intricate six to eight part harmonies, great stage presences and strong sense of humor, The Opportunes promise to be fun to welcome in the holiday season with. Tickets available at the Harvard box office for $7. 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre...
...decorations in the store windows of the world, takes away from the season to be jolly to the extent that the holiday scarcely resembles the ideal to which some of us non-commercial sentimentalists still cling. On the sidewalks of this country, it wasn’t the Grinch who stole Christmas—it was consumerism...
...Pocahontas in Terrence Malick's The New World, now filming in Britain. Malick gave first big breaks to Richard Gere, in 1978's Days of Heaven, and James Caviezel, in 1998's The Thin Red Line. An aspiring singer, Kilcher had her only previous film role in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, as a little choir member. The Peruvian Indian sang a blues tune at her screen test for Malick. "She had the innocence of the young Pocahontas and the gravitas to play her as an adult," says producer Sarah Green. We're sure that maturity will come in handy...