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...Pocket-sized common room in her double—“A truncated square? A pentagon, I guess.” The bedroom is even tinier, requiring Chen to climb over her desk to enter. Other highlights include the closet’s “distinctive Tetris-block shape” and the dumpsters outside the door. Dunster K-51: This geometric marvel features a hexagonal common room with two trapezoidal fire doors, a bedroom the size of an Apley closet, and ceilings so slanted that the rooms are virtually pyramidal. The lucky Yoshitaka Yamamoto and Andrew...

Author: By Alwa A. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lifestyles of the Cramped and Irate | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...stacked in its favor. Fiasco starts the video, as all must, with a shout-out to his homies, but what follows isn’t the standard booty-shaking fare. It’s pleasantly low-key; clips spliced out of skateboarding home videos, wide shots of grungy urban blocks, and throughout it all, Lupe himself dipping about amicably. Half the pleasure is in seeing the decidedly gawky Fiasco jerking around in front of the camera. Swimming in an oversized hoodie, with a jumbo pair of glasses perched on his nose, he bobs his thin neck to the jazzy beat...

Author: By Sam D. G. Jacoby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Popscreen: Lupe Fiasco | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

That changes this week, when the first HD DVD player out of the block, Toshiba's $500 HD-A1, goes on sale at Amazon.com and major U.S. retail stores. The boxy black and silver device looks like a standard DVD player--and will play standard DVDs--but also contains the hardware necessary to play HD DVDs when it's connected to an HDTV set. (And only when it's connected to an HDTV; you can't watch the new discs on your old sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let The Format Wars Begin | 4/17/2006 | See Source »

...well as on my own personal interviews"). Yet in casting the group as his heavy, Brown was as shrewd as someone setting up an innocent man for a crime. You don't choose the head of the Rotary. You single out the secretive guy at the end of the block with the off-putting tics, who perhaps has a couple of incidents in his past that will hinder an effective defense. That's not Heil, but it's not a bad sketch of the organization to which she belongs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ways of Opus Dei | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

...been here, and it’s not fun to lose to them.” Playing in their final match for Harvard, Freese and fellow co-captain Seamus McKiernan performed well. Freese tallied five kills on .500 hitting while McKiernan led the team with 15 kills and five blocks. But the story of the night was the play of two NJIT sophomores. Leonardo Paludo and Eduardo Welter—both hailing from Escola Barao de Rio Branco in Balneario Camboriu, Brazil—combined for 29 kills, 17 digs, and 7 aces to power the Highlanders past the Crimson...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NJIT Offense Overpowers Crimson in Season Finale | 4/16/2006 | See Source »

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