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...Internet. Unlike other proposals, the service will not require the installation of any cables. Castine hopes to make the service available across campus and will limit the number of Slingboxes to six per House. “I think of it really as a coop, just a bunch of students banding together to get TV,” Castine wrote in an e-mailed statement. “I don’t like to think of it as a business.” Crimson Cable will cost $59.99 a month, in addition to startup costs like the Slingboxes, Castine...
...Only two years earlier, McCarty had described her bitter rival on the county commission, Tony Masilotti, as a "bad apple in the bunch" after he resigned shortly before pleading guilty to honest services fraud. Her sudden fall is symptomatic of a culture of graft that has plagued Palm Beach over the years. As the county's population mushroomed to 1.3 million people, so did the egos and perceived invincibility of the county commission, a board with the power to dole out millions of dollars in taxpayer grants to tight-budgeted cities whose mayors and commissioners regularly sought their endorsement. While...
...become even simpler. Yesterday I made vegetable soup. It took like 10 or 15 minutes to throw it together and it was really good. It's not that I wouldn't have done that before, but I would have thrown in a sausage or some bacon or a bunch of croutons and now it's like five ingredients: Carrot, potatoes, fennel, onion and split peas, plus barley and water...
...Thanksgiving, and last week's 42-7 home defeat at the hands of New Orleans, in which on one play, Saints receiver Devery Henderson caught a pass with no Lions defender in sight, then scampered across the field for another 23 yards while cowardly Lions tried like a bunch of sorry Pop Warner players to tackle him. If that's not humiliating enough, how about the fact that the Motor City's floundering auto industry is actually performing better than the Lions right...
...motivation for coming back to Harvard was the opportunity to research corruption and ethics as director of the Safra Center. “For the next five years we’re going to be doing a major research project...on the improper influence of money in a whole bunch of contexts—medical research, academic research, government, and politics,” Lessig said in an interview Friday. “It’s a chance to do something that I wasn’t able to do anywhere else in the world.” Throughout...