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...Jonas certainly did his part to allow for a Crimson comeback. He made saves all night long akin to the goaltender whose style mask he shares--Dominik Hasek...
...says Kevin Hause, a gaming analyst with tech experts IDT. "But these games are expensive. Compared with MP3, the desire to do this is greater." And the opportunity, despite the risk of felony prosecution, is growing. Illegally copied games sites are proliferating so fast that stamping them out is akin to "playing wack-a-mole at the county fair," says Kathlene Karg, one of the IDSA investigators who raided McLaughlin's operation. Case in point: the IDSA managed to shut down 400 sites in the past year--impressive but less than 1% of the estimated total...
...delight in the mundane with a narrative that manages to be at once child-like and worldly. A walk through town becomes a symphony of fragrance and image. The boy's naivete is amusingly depicted during a lazy afternoon when the boy regards a pigeon mating ritual as something akin to a World Wrestling Federation grudge match...
...speech at Harvard, the University of Chicago's Allan Bloom put his finger on this modern instinct of university students by way of analogy. Today's students, Bloom argued, are akin to the dogs of Plato's Republic, who are warm with friends and fierce toward enemies for no other reason than familiarity with the former and ignorance of the latter...
...many undergraduates, the idea is akin to the seventh circle of hell, but Nancy Sommers, Sosland director of expository writing, is extending the Expos experience into four years for 422 members of the Class...