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While the eighth-place finish matches the Crimson’s effort in last year’s Yale Invitational, Harvard’s total score was 19 strokes above the team’s score in 2003. However, by comparison, the 650 posted by this year’s champion, Yale, is 38 strokes higher than the score posted last year by champion Princeton...
Because flash players are so inexpensive--we found some for $35 on the comparison-shopping site BizRate.com--manufacturers are making nearly three times as many of them as they are hard-drive-based models, according to research firm IDC. Most play both MP3 and Windows Media files and run on a single AAA battery, which lasts about 12 to 20 hours. FM-radio tuners and audio-record features are often built-in (and rarely found on hard-drive players). Flash players weigh about 1 oz., compared with 6 oz. for an iPod...
...comparison, the G.O.P. effort is hyperpersonal. The Republicans are relying on volunteers like Billie Fiore, a paralegal by day and Licking County's Bush-Cheney campaign coordinator the rest of the time. The front seat of her station wagon is filled with maps, the back with yard signs. Fiore has replaced the baskets of voter-registration materials she once carried in the back seat with absentee-ballot forms to give to potential Bush voters who might not make it to the polls on Election Day. She says workers from her pool of 3,000 volunteers are making a total...
Turner, however, slowly opens up to his restored family as the journey proceeds, and starts to mention parts of his life that have been kept in the dark for decades. He first acknowledges his criminal past with a wry comparison to Henry’s archaeological digs, telling young Zach that “some things want to be taken.” Just as Henry only brings his fractured family together by stealing them, Roberts has shown that he’s not just “digging up shit,” but reassembling a borrowed genre with...
...greatest moment of the exhibition is set at its extremity. Furthest from the entrance, as if deliberately hidden form the most ADD stricken of frivolous tourists, the democratized museum has brought us to a thoroughly different milieu. Here there is a comparison that sets before our very eyes the power and possibility of the media of print...