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...Scene two unfolded seven weeks later, approaching midnight on a Saturday in November, when Mitchell filed into a room in the bowels of Sydney's Telstra Stadium to face the world's media. In a boilover, his side had just lost its semi-final against Australia. Mitchell's black blazer highlighted the absence of color in his face. With dignity, he answered every question, some of them insulting like, "Did you have a game plan tonight?" But he looked and sounded like a man who'd just foreseen the end of the world. Within a month, the New Zealand Rugby...
...Toronto has grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period, thanks to something rarer than its timing. Toronto boasts a festival oddity: "A semi-normal audience," says Picturehouse president Bob Berney, who is bringing The Orphanage, directed by Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro's protégé, Juan Antonio Bayona. Unlike Cannes and, increasingly, Sundance, Toronto saves lots of tickets for civilians, who buy the majority of the more than 300,000 tickets each year. And though hotel and restaurant prices have risen in recent years...
...Utah, during Sundance in January, they're not just protecting against the cold, but also against the teeming horde in search of a hot cup of coffee in one of Park City's crowded cafés. Toronto, with its easy public transportation, crisp weather and metropolis full of "semi-normal" people, retains its identity. "The tone is set by Canada," says Poland...
...That's not something a candidate like Mike Huckabee necessarily excels at. The same afternoon as the Obama event, 18 miles away Huckabee was speaking to a Rotary Club gathering at the Nashua Country Club. During the question and answer session, Jim McCormick, a semi-retired consultant from Nashua, challenged Huckabee on his stance on whether creationism should be taught at schools...
...program has already touched many parts of the globe: The radar's prototype was built in the Marshall Islands; its semi-submersible converted oil rig platform was designed in Norway. The two parts were assembled in Texas, its 50,000 tons hoisted onto a ship, and sailed 15,000 miles around the tip of South America (it was too big to use the Panama Canal), arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006. Its ultimate destination is the more challenging waters of Adak, a farflung outpost in Alaska's Aleutian island chain, famous for terrible weather and 100-foot waves...