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...this for two reasons. First, it’s stronger than the phone networks. Huge amounts of money are spent yearly deploying routers and switches and fancy fiber cables all over the world, and in sending up geostationary satellites to rest above sub-Saharan Africa and beam Internet access (albeit at high cost) to Internet cafes in developing countries. And digitized voice itself is efficient: A standard telephone Internet connection over the same wire that carries a single analog conversation can carry five or six equivalent digital conversations with minimal perceived signal degradation...
...Sovereign Bank sign in Kendall Square, and a man fleeing, resisting arrest, there is some objectively poetic beauty in such a win. There is something that you yourself acknowledge in the sheer improbability of the Red Sox beating the Yankees. There is something about sports enthusiasm coming to Harvard, albeit in the worst...
...riveting minutes last Friday, CNN’s “Crossfire” dared to air a real debate, albeit by accident. “The Daily Show”’s Jon Stewart ambushed hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala, charging them with “partisan hackery” and eviscerating them and the rest of the mainstream news media for abdicating their journalistic duties to the American public...
...obsession" with Iraq, and charged that this had distracted it from a more pressing threat in Iran, leaving it forced to simply rely on a European diplomatic initiative. But Kerry's own proposals are not substantially different from the deal being offered by the Europeans - with Bush administration consent, albeit grudging - to Iranian officials at a meeting in Vienna on Thursday...
Sure, specks of light that have emerged along the way. A DVD rental store (albeit one with a limited selection and horribly scratched discs) was definitely in order, and Felipe’s is much appreciated. But these are the exceptions. Even as the Roman Empire was meeting its demise, I’m sure the occasional, delicious taqueria sprouted up. Am I right or am I right...