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Fifteen people stepped forward [asking to leave], including one entire family, and much of another family, and both of these families were long-time followers of Jim Jones dating back to Indiana days. The mood of Jonestown grew darker as this day went on, and late in the afternoon the clouds turned black and there was this freakish wind that just tore through the pavilion as I was talking with Jones. Then there was this torrent of rain. He basically said that the Temple was being destroyed from within, and what he meant by that was that these defectors-were...
...singing narrator—and Lee Harvey Oswald. Last Friday’s production may have come off without any major hitch, but there was a nagging feeling that the sparks didn’t fly, that it never reached out to rough up the prevailing mood of Hope and Change. Some directorial risk-taking would have helped.Still, the main thing about “Assassins” is the assassins, and this cast has some seriously talented standouts. The best, by a lot, is Alison H. Rich ’09. She played Samuel Byck, who, in Feburary...
...With leaders like ours, who only think of their own personal ambition of controlling the party, I don't see how we'll ever get back into power again," lamented Fouzia Benyoub, a Parti Socialiste (PS) member. Her glumness typified the mood at the party's 75th congress in Reims on Saturday. Many of the party's brightest lights seemed to be competing in the increasingly bitter battle for the position of first secretary, with an eye to launching a presidential bid of their own against Sarkozy in four years. And those who weren't were keeping busy dishing...
...definitely more disciplined and know what we have to bring to the court. We learned the system.”Last year, the season ended with Rollins, Moretzsohn, Markley, and Wheeler on the outside looking in as Cornell represented the Ivies in the NCAA tournament. Even so, the mood right now for Harvard is anything but bitter. Rollins stressed that each player has not let the disappointing ending affect her morale, but instead used it as an impetus to improve her game.Markley and Wheeler have taken this mantra to heart. With a summer of extensive training under their belts...
...public mood on economics today is a lot like the public mood on culture 40 years ago: Americans want government to impose law and order - to keep their 401(k)s from going down, to keep their health-care premiums from going up, to keep their jobs from going overseas - and they don't much care whose heads Washington has to bash...