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...round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, the smiling Oswald was an instant hit and Universal ordered a series of shorts. When Disney met with executives to negotiate another contract in 1928, the rabbit was still riding high and the animator thought he had the upper hand. Instead, the studio told him that it had hired away all of his employeees and retained the rights to Oswald. Univesral offered to keep Disney if he took a lower salary, but he refused. He and Ub Iwerks - the one loyal animator who stayed with Disney Bros. - returned to work...
...exile movement" at a time when it appears to be at its most fragmented. "He's been criticized strongly in the past for not allowing free discussion. This is a great way to answer that criticism," Barnett says. He thinks the likelihood of the more radical voices gaining the upper hand in the discussions is low. "They are a minority among the exile community and they are a tiny majority among ordinary Tibetans living in China, the vast majority of whom will support whatever the Dalai Lama decides." In fact, reports indicate that the process of smoothing over divisions...
...face internal divisions on other economy-related issues too. Liberals are eager to tackle a big agenda, including a tax hike on the wealthy and a bigger public-works stimulus package. But reality may bring the party's leadership back down to earth. The senior Democratic aide expects no upper-income tax hikes or big infrastructure investments, and says the stimulus package rolled out this week will be restrained. "It'll be unemployment-benefits extension, a federal Medicaid matching program and allowing small businesses to write off immediately more of the expenses," the aide says. Even so, the package...
...Crimson also had momentum on its side, entering the weekend having won eight of its last nine games. Harvard knew that a win yesterday translated into sole possession of the title. While the Quakers forced freshman keeper Austin Harms into two early saves, it was Harvard who took the upper hand. The Crimson had several chances to take the lead near the end of the half, but could not break the deadlock. Fucito had a strike go just wide of the post, and junior Andre Akpan and senior John Stamatis were both denied by Penn keeper Drew Healy.The second half...
Illinois Democrats like Obama have also learned that their Midwestern base provides some inoculation against charges that dog their coastal colleagues. When Republicans call Nancy Pelosi a "San Francisco liberal" or derisively refer to Upper West Side and Cambridge lefties, they tag those Democrats as ideologically extreme and culturally élitist. Politicians from Chicago can be just as liberal as those from New York, New England and California, but they come from the much-fetishized heartland, which makes attacks on them a tougher sell to swing voters. And they have an advantage within the Democratic base as well: while party...