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When describing the Clintons’ moves from Arkansas to the White House, Troy, who earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard, writes, “Like valedictorians from small Arkansas high schools who assumed they would ace their Harvard classes, both Hillary and Bill Clinton were surprised by how hard everything had become...
DIED. Robert Lockwood, 91, giant of Mississippi blues who, after learning guitar at age 11 from blues pioneer Robert Johnson, fused raw Delta chords, electric blues and urban funk; in Cleveland, Ohio. Teaming up in the 1940s with harmonica ace Sonny Boy Williamson, he made Arkansas radio's King Biscuit Time the most influential broadcast...
...young Columbia team is also very deep. Juniors John Baumann and Ben Nwachukwu anchor the Ivy League’s best frontcourt (a lot of good that did Harvard last year) and there are a number of nice options on the perimeter as well, most notably the Japanese sharpshooter ace K.J. Matsui. Try to avoid calling those three-point makes “bombs...
...Tata's answers is the $2,200 car, a four-door, rear-engine runabout he designed himself that's currently under development. Another is the Ace, a 700-cc truck that Tata Motors sells for less than $5,000; it's a runaway success. Purchases of these vehicles are supported by low-interest consumer loans from Tata Finance. Tata's hotel chain is building 200 hotels across India under the Ginger brand, offering air-conditioned rooms with wireless Internet access for 1,000 rupees ($22), one-twentieth of the cost typically paid by business travelers today...
...Many companies including Microsoft competitors Apple, Amazon.com and Google are getting into the video distribution business. Microsoft's ace is that the Xbox 360 is already connected to the TV, a hurdle others try to overcome by marketing multimedia set-top boxes or creating unwieldy hardware partnerships. Microsoft expects the number of Xbox 360 consoles to number 10 million by Jan. 1, the lion's share of which will likely be connected to the Xbox Live network. It's tough to declare a winner with so many services in such early forms, but it's a safe bet that Microsoft...