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Some said they were too busy to launch the effort themselves or that they felt too ill-informed about PetroChina’s links to the Khartoum regime. Still others said that the impetus for a divestment campaign should come from students...
Brad Bird felt that tug of loyalties in the '90s when, as a Disney-trained animator who had helped launch The Simpsons, he was trying to get backing for cartoon features he would direct. Except for The Iron Giant, a critically praised fable that didn't do Lion King business, "I was always getting my films on the runway, but I wasn't getting them off the ground," recalls Bird, sitting in the huge playpen that is Pixar headquarters in the San Francisco suburb of Emeryville. "And I wanted so bad to make movies. I also had a family that...
...enactment of Dante's Inferno. It's Bonfire Night in the Sussex town of Lewes. Held every year on Nov. 5, Bonfire Night nominally commemorates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 - an attempt by English Catholics to blow up the upper house of Parliament and launch an uprising against King James I's Protestant rule. These days, however, it's simply an excuse (not just in Lewes, but also in less flamboyant displays throughout the country) for a boisterous get-together by pyromaniacs of every stripe. From midafternoon, Lewes' train station, pubs and narrow streets are mobbed with...
...course begins in the Charles River Basin, where crews line up in preparation for their staggered start. An umpire in a launch calls each crew one-by-one to the starting line at 10-second intervals...
...though the vendors still sell their storied fried dough, the course remains identical, and the coach on the launch carries the same legendary status, this boat is far from what it was. The senior-laden crew of 2004 remained largely intact after the 2003 national championship season, making this seemingly new beginning all the more difficult...