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...BAFTAs played out more like a dress rehearsal for the real thing. Maybe it was the 11th-hour turnaround on the strike negotiations, which cleared the way for a full-on Oscars ceremony Feb. 24 and gave Hollywood's big hitters an excuse to save the price of a plane ticket. Or maybe it was just the inevitable comedown after all the hype. But last night's ceremony at the Royal Opera House was less star-studded than star-sprinkled and lacked the energy you'd expect from an awards show that almost had the spotlight to itself. Plenty...
...great photojoumalist Diana Walker when I covered my first presidential campaign in 1988. We were following Michael Dukakis, and she was generous enough to show a novice where to sit on the bus and how not to be the last person to get one's bags from the campaign plane. She also helped show me how to see--to look for the things that others don't notice...
...week, no plane ride or press conference could pass without Barack Obama's spokesmen and surrogates lamenting the power of the Clinton machine. Three days before Super Tuesday, Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, even warned in a campaign memo that the opponent was so mighty that Obama might have a tough time winning a single contest outside of his home state of Illinois. After Obama's 13 state wins on Super Tuesday, compared to Hillary Clinton's 8 (with New Mexico still too close to call), either Obama's spin doctors are very good or his pollsters are historically...
...special program called "Battling the Blizzard." An often repeated news clip shows Premier Wen Jiabao picking up a bullhorn and apologizing to a crowd of disgruntled travelers trapped in the train station in Changsha, the icy capital of Hunan province. (Even the Premier was inconvenienced by the weather: his plane couldn't land in Changsha and was forced to divert to Wuhan, 180 miles away. Wen arrived in the capital by train.) "I'm very sorry that you are stranded and not able to go home earlier," Wen told the throng. "We are doing our best to fix things...
...rejected Yasser Arafat's PLO to found the Marxist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Habash pioneered modern terrorist tactics in the war on Israel. During the '60s and '70s, his group orchestrated such high-profile attacks as the hijacking of an El Al plane in 1968, the bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket in 1969 and the gunning down of 27 people at Israel's Lod Airport...