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Sometimes Brits get Oscars because, as everyone knows, they give the best acceptance speeches. Swinton managed six witty, well-formed remarks in her minute or so on stage. Day-Lewis, upon ascending the stage, knelt before his presenter, Helen Mirren, who'd won last year for playing Elizabeth II in The Queen. "That?s the closest I'll ever come to getting a knighthood," he said, flashing something we never thought this magnificently intense actor was capable of: a broad, blinding smile...
...morning. First, there were only five people on board, while more than 100 watched intently from a nearby hangar. Second, the plane was the first commercial jet ever to fly on biofuel, a fuel produced from plant matter instead of petroleum or other fossil fuels. "This is the first stage on a journey towards renewable fuel," Virgin founder Richard Branson told reporters in the hangar shortly before takeoff, his voice drowned out every now and then by the roar of overhead planes. "It's the equivalent of those exciting first few steps of a baby...
...year proved no exception. Pity the lovely Amy Adams, forced to awkwardly sing her way through “Happy Working Song” and to dance with a Ken Doll come alive during “So Close.” At least Kristen Chenoweth got carried off stage during her musical moment. And then there were the montages–oh, and there were many. Thanks to the Academy’s desperate preparation for an unscripted ceremony, the audience was treated to a plethora of clips of awards past. I knew it was going...
...slowly ate away at the Crimson’s advantage. At 13:11 in the first period, forward Beth Rosenberg sailed the puck past Harvard sophomore goalie Christina Kessler. Forward Jessi Waters tied the game for Colgate with the only score of the second period. With the comeback, the stage was set for a third period fight to the finish.“They’re a tough team to play against. They have a couple kids who are really skilled and it’s going to be a battle to play them every year...
...Nasrallah is one of the Arab world's great orators, but he was almost matched at the event by Mughniyah's 18-year-old son, Jihad. Dressed in crisp camouflage uniform and forage cap, Jihad Mughniyah marched briskly onto the stage and delivered a confident and impassioned speech, pledging that "the strugglers of my father and myself are ready to continue in his footsteps." The rhetoric even had hard-nosed Hizballah security men and top rank party officials dabbing their eyes with handkerchiefs as the audience burst into applause and cheers at the end of the speech...