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...Last month's billion-dollar lowball/trial balloon to the record labels was more publicity stunt than settlement offer, designed to keep the site in the headlines and the users flocking to the service to get in a few more downloads before the free music stops. Now the site is up to 64 million registered users - about a fourth of the U.S. population, to put it in perspective. And Napster knows that not too many of them will be sticking around for the strictly legal New Artist Program...
Iran has won international renown with films about children. Panahi made two of them: The White Balloon and The Mirror, about little girls stranded on the streets of Tehran. Now he reveals with unflinching sympathy how a female of any age can be lost in a man's world. The Circle is a dexterously constructed drama about one long night in the lives of half a dozen female ex-convicts in the Islamic republic, each of whom has been imprisoned, or may soon be, for such "crimes" as riding in a car with a man not her husband. This...
Sitting in the stands, it was if someone had popped a balloon and all the energy in the arena had just gone out with it. Harvard was going to lose another one-goal game to Dartmouth and the drought against the nation's top-team would be extended to five games...
...file it under "Jazz." Foremost a dance band, Liquid Soul makes improvisation take a backseat to grooves aimed at shaking backsides. Sadly, the band freights the album's first half with uninspired chants, and the self-conscious guest vocals by Simone, daughter of Nina, add more sandbags to the balloon. Later on, when everyone shuts up and lets the horns do the singing, it's easier to get up and dance...
...endemic shortage of courses has caused Core class sizes to balloon. The eight-course requirement expects that each student will take, on average, one Core class per semester; with a school-wide enrollment of approximately 6400 students, Harvard's Core program must expect an average of more than 100 students per class. These large classes hinder the learning process; approaches to knowledge do not need to be taught in gargantuan lecture halls...