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...trying to come together as a community and have a community response," said a somber Resident Fellow Reen Carter...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood and Kate L. Rakoczy, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Medical School Student Dies in Apparent Suicide | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

Shyamalan effectively manipulates camera angles, perspective and the use of silence to create tension, but seems unsure about when to take his storyline seriously. Some of the film's most comic lines come at scenes with the most drama and the laughter in the theater disturbs the somber mood, while many short scenes seem tangential at best. The acting in the movie, including Robin Wright Penn and Spencer Treat Clark as Dunn's wife and son, is solid and the movie is technically impressive despite its holes in coherence...

Author: By Rebecca Dezube, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Shattered: 'Unbreakable' Not Quite Air-Tight | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...somber George W. Bush assured the nation last night that he had won the U.S. presidential election, mere hours after the state of Florida finally certified his victory...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Declares Victory as Gore Challenges Florida Results | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...what one lawyer calls "triage," as Harris issued new opinions and set new deadlines almost daily, and sometimes hourly, most of them designed to delay the hand recounts until they became moot. At first, the Gore lawyers were primed for battle, but by Tuesday night the mood turned somber. Daley was so tired that he began to resemble Bert the Muppet. Christopher at times looked absolutely ancient. As their anger and frustration rose, Harris became the woman they loved to hate, just as she did for Democrats around the country. If she wasn't taking her orders from Austin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Prime-Time Battle | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...emotional default mode of a man who has buried good friends--Gianni Versace, Princess Diana--and lost others to AIDS. The Elton John who wrote Daniel, with its baffled yearning, is the one who loves the blue-tinted male nudes of John Dugdale, with their Victorian grief. The somber undercurrent is plain even in Andres Serrano's vivid crimson circle in a rectangle of bright yellow, which on closer inspection turns out to be a pool of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Pictures From An Exhibitionist | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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