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...French cartoon bio-pic Persepolis was nominated for Foreign Film but not Animated Feature. And of the five finalists in the foreign-language category, three have already been ruled ineligible for the Motion Picture Academy?s foreign film Oscar: The Diving Bell (because its director is American), The Kite Runner (Swiss-American director) and Ang Lee's sexy Lust, Caution (not made in Taiwan...
Sarah Huckabee is desperately looking for a volunteer. Her father, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, may suddenly be a front runner in Iowa and in South Carolina and even becoming competitive nationally, but his rising profile has its complications. In Iowa this frosty Des Moines morning, she is dealing with a shortage of drivers for his motorcade because they now need two media vans. "Our caravan is growing, but our driver's list isn't keeping pace, and the bus doesn't get here until the 18th," Sarah Huckabee muses out loud, high-heeled brown boots kicked off while...
...Ruth," he says, standing up and looking at the first name tag in front of him, "this is a dangerous job, running for President." In a time of war, Biden is the candidate with the most foreign policy experience. He was talked up as a possible front runner when he ran for the 1988 Democratic nomination. This time, however, his candidacy has gotten nowhere...
...over Cape Canaveral, Fla., for just 5 min. each day. For the shuttle to catch up without wasting too much fuel, the timing has to be dead-on. STAYING IN LANE It takes 2˝ days to intercept the station. The shuttle is launched into a slightly lowerorbit. Like a runner on an inside track, it catches up to the station, fires its thrusters and edges up to the station's orbit for docking...
...meaning only 27 percent of the undergraduate student body voted for our new president. 27 percent! One could argue that the reason for the low participation was because the Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Randall S. Sarafa ’09 ticket was the clear front-runner, being the only candidates with UC experience. A race is a race—anything can happen. In a place where anti-establishment is part of our middle name (Harvard Antiestablishmentliberalcesspool College), everyone supports the underdog (Red Sox), and everyone dances in their room naked to T-Pain whenever they...