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Although participants were in a celebratory mood, the cloud of last year’s loss to Yale hovered over the event. In 2005, Yale collected 60 more units of blood than Harvard...
...Kirkland House Co-Master Tom Conley set the mood for the evening when he introduced Mansfield to the roughly 50 attendees of the Senior Common Room (SCR) event...
Haiti's pre-Carnival bands were out with their usual fanfare on Sunday night, but by Monday morning the crowds were back on the street in a different mood. The news that the latest electoral results showed that front-runner Rene Preval's lead had dropped slightly below the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff was greeted with barricades of burning tires that shut down the city, as his supporters demanded that electoral officials certify that Preval was the undisputed winner. Even members of the provisional electoral council and some independent observers questioned the tabulation procedure, fueling the anger...
...could say the category's voters (316 animation professionals) were in synch with this year's overall Oscar mood: ignore the mainstream hits, and reward quality work in the little films. (Hi there, Brokeback Mountain! Bye-bye, Narnia!) But the resentment of cartoon veterans toward the CGI style that put them out of business could play a part. "A lot of animators are older, and computers have a stigma," says Tim Miller, creative director of Blur Studio, which copped a nomination last year for its short Gopher Broke. "I hate seeing political motivation influencing what's chosen." Perhaps the main...
...traditionalists, for whom the paternal line of succession is a defining characteristic of Japan's imperial legacy, started to protest. Echoing the shifting mood, on Feb. 4 the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's most liberal major newspaper, said that "Revision of the law must be considered through calm discussion." At a rally on Feb. 1, 173 Diet members signed a petition opposing a "premature submission of the bill...