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...about his opponents and does not show annoyance with persistent questioning or hectoring. When it comes to his own party, Latham does not travel with the baggage of being an insider or power broker - or as a front for other interests. How much will the party be prepared to bend to Latham's command? That will depend - as it did for Whitlam and Bob Hawke - on how quickly Latham can pull in the voters. There isn't a great deal of time for Labor. It has squandered the past two years, perhaps five. Howard has gained stature through his political...
...discovery, Horowitz says, seemed the perfect alternative to expensive space travel and past attempts to measure charged particles, which bend in magnetic fields such as those in space...
...their very own Sheryl Crow-in-training. The new HandBand ($90) from KGI Consumer Products offers a cheap alternative. Using nothing more than a high-tech pair of gloves and a portable, wireless receiver, it lets kids play virtual guitar, keyboards or drums at less-than-earsplitting volume. Each bend of the finger produces a different note; you switch instruments with the push of a button. It's a great idea, but the execution needs work. The sound that emerges from the grapefruit-size speaker is passable but a bit synthetic. And the finger contortions required to play the HandBand...
...concerned, I’m not qualified [for a ninth semester],” Cusworth said. “If something [happens] where the ninth semester works out, I’d obviously jump on that, but I’m not going to try to bend any rules...
Behind the scenes, the place was buzzing. Aides and emissaries shuttled through the heavy wooden doors leading into Sistani's office, trying to determine whether the reclusive cleric, 75--the religious figure most revered by Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim majority--will bend in his opposition to the U.S. plan to hand over power by June 30 to a transitional Iraqi government chosen by an as-yet-undefined caucus system. Sistani says he will urge his followers to reject any new government unless it is directly elected. To those who met with him last week, Sistani seemed good-humored...