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...President in control and on top of things." One thing it will not do, though, is damage his chances of re-election next month. His poll ratings are still around 80% and he seems set to sail back into power by a landslide. But after the bombing, the mood of those who turn out to vote for Putin may be more fatalistic than triumphant. Just after last Friday's blast, Oksana Petrova, 32, shrugged when a reporter asked her if she was now afraid of taking the metro. "Of course, I'm scared," she said. "But what...
...relaxed mood of the Harvard volunteers belies their hard work over the past week. The College Dems have been knocking on doors, phoning voters and waving signs. They’ve been shown on CNN, interviewed for the local news and featured on the front page of Charleston’s major daily newspaper...
Hendricks had missed several early-season scrimmages due to lingering ankle problems. With her return to health, as well as the return of sophomore Moira Weigel—who played her first match of the season last Thursday at Dartmouth—the mood on the team is confident and upbeat. Weigel beat Andrea Berberian 9-6, 9-7, 9-2 at No. 4 to claim her first win of the season...
Sheik Hassan Assi could see that the burly Kurdish guerrilla leader was in no mood to bargain. The Kurd, he recalls, backed him against a wall and shook his forefinger, saying, "Shame on you, Sheik, for building a house on Kurdish land. You knew we would be back one day, even if it took us 100 years!" For Assi, an Arab, it was not just a house but a dream home, a resplendent country estate on the outskirts of Kirkuk, on which he had spent his life's fortune. The Kurd, Mohammed Abdullah, had moved into the house after...
...arrival of their four idols, whom they hadn't even heard of three months earlier. The press asks the mop tops when they're going to get a haircut, and George gets a laugh when he replies, earnestly, "I had one yesterday." In a crowded elevator, Paul lightens the mood by announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, on your right you'll see the Washington Memorial." Running down a hotel corridor, George mimics the mob outside--"Ban the bomb!"--and John ad-libs, "Ban the Pope." Trapped in their suite, Ringo plaintively asks, "Are we going...