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...functionality for a specialized, ultralight tool. But be warned that CE will run only its own applications, and they're "lite" versions. Microsoft is so worried that consumers will be confused--and buy a CE machine expecting it to run full Windows programs--that it will launch an "awareness" ad campaign next month. Pocket Word, for instance, is a dumbed-down Word that's little more than a text editor. It doesn't even have a word counter--which is why, when Mr. Productivity wrote this column, he had to count words with his fingers. And knees...
Whose Line, hosted with an easy bluster by Drew Carey (whose sitcom this show follows on ABC), is based on the British TV parlor game that made its debut in 1988. Performers are given characters to play, songs to devise, scenes to act out--all, we are told, instantly ad lib. A skit with a Zorro theme required that each actor's speech begin with consecutive letters of the alphabet. Series regular Ryan Stiles got the letter X. No problem: "Xavier Cugat once said...
...enough, about a week or so later, I found myself looking at The New York Times' Arts section wherein some horrible B-movie (which I think was supposed to revive the career of one of those long-forgotten extras from Saved by the Bell) took out a full-page ad, sporting the line, "Come see it! Siskel and Ebert gave us two thumbs down...
They have been forced into a situation no one could expect to face. To further exacerbate its complexity and immensity, the Harvard administration and Ad Board harassed and deserted them when they needed them the most. Yet the survivors are still here. It tears at my heart to hear of their Ad-Board horror stories. I am ashamed to be associated with such a backward policy. I am saddened that Harvard abandons its students in their time of greatest need...
...hope that their bravery in coming forth to point out what has been so long neglected at Harvard will provoke discussion and change. By not expelling the rapists on campus, the Ad Board is revealing to all its priorities: lying about one's SAT scores is more serious than brutally assaulting a fellow human being...