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...country is in a strange mood, filled with unease, and an odd passivity. At one time, a terrorist attack on an American destroyer, killing American sailors, would have brought an explosion of outrage, cries for revenge, Teddy Roosevelt bluster. Instead, the country seems subdued. Too many other anxieties are floating unmoored in the mind - fears about the stock market, about Middle Eastern war, about oil prices, about the possibility that the good-time '90s are about to turn, post-millennium, into their own evil twin. Americans have a sneaking superstition about Clinton: When he goes, the lucky '90s go. What...
...mood was festive as 80 of Radcliffe's key donors, friends and staff--including Drew Gilpin Faust, incoming dean of the Institute, Linda S. Wilson, former president of Radcliffe College and University provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67--dined under streaming gold ribbon and pearlescent white balloons...
...assemble a large crowd to sit down in front of the federal parliament and stay there until the election commission turned up with real results." Long before 3 p.m. on Thursday, 200,000 or 300,000 citizens--maybe half a million--had swarmed into the capital in no mood for sitting...
Kostunica, who founded his tiny Democratic Party of Serbia eight years ago, has proved to be a shrewd politician in tune with the public mood. When local opposition supporters defied police efforts to break up a miners' strike in Kolubara on Wednesday, Kostunica raced to the scene in time to rally a cheering crowd of 10,000. In public appearances throughout the week, he referred to himself as Yugoslavia's President-elect, and while he said, "I don't like the word revolution," he recognized that ordinary Serbs would determine the outcome. Even before Milosevic's concession, Kostunica established...
...shows recycled footage from a bouncy press junket that had been staged prior to opening weekend at UCLA with legions of real cheerleaders. Also, of course, the cheerleading movie got lucky. Like all monstrously profitable films, it arrived quite by accident at a time when audiences were in the mood to see it. You go, girls...