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...licensing. Sony games, even in their pirated Internet versions, contain about five times as much digital information as Nintendo's, and are thus more difficult for illegal users to download. They must copy CDs, using special $300 drives, and install a mail-ordered $4 modifying chip--a significant psychological barrier to mass piracy. And Sony has an ace up its sleeve in the shape of the PlayStation II, set to wow its first U.S. users at the turn of the millennium. Nintendo looks more vulnerable to emulators. Its cartridge-based games are much smaller, download more quickly--and, with UltraHLE...
Students who write will better understand what they read, and students who read will, in turn, write better. Especially in college, where students are supposed to be able to spend their time investigating new or special interests, limits on creative departments can be a serious barrier to education. The College already has one thriving creative concentration--Visual and Environmental Studies--that has proved to be both popular and successful...
...returned to the US. BMG rush-released their album Isola to the US in September, and Kent has been garnering rave reviews ever since. When Kent opened at the Roxy for their better-known Swedish compatriots, The Cardigans, The Crimson had the chance to traverse the language barrier with lead guitarist Sami Sirvio and drummer Markus Mustonen...
This high barrier to running does not seem to have hurt the GOP. A half-dozen Republicans have thrown their hats into the ring: Lamar Alexander, the former Tennessee governor who has been in contention almost since the moment he dropped out of the 1996 race; Steve Forbes, the billionaire who lost the GOP presidential nomination in 1996; former vice president Dan Quayle; New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith; head of the Family Research Council Gary Bauer; and Arizona Sen. John McCain. Texas Governor George W. Bush, Elizabeth Dole, Ohio Rep. John Kasich and Broadcaster Alan Keyes are all weighing runs...
...community just through willing it. Those arguing for the deliberate building of community assume or postulate that getting people together is great and preferable to fragmentation. This theory holds as long as people want to get together with each other and aren't doing it just because of a barrier like living too far across campus or fearing, or not understanding, others. I don't think this is the problem. Most students did not choose Harvard College for its marvelous social experiences. Though people here are not extra-dorky introverts, many are happy to occupy a single social space. What...