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...thought handheld gaming devices were just for kids, Sony's new PSP (short for PlayStation Portable) could easily change your mind. With its slick, black-lacquer design, bright 4.3-in. display and ability to play movies and MP3s, the $250 PSP makes its main competitor, the Nintendo DS, look like a relic from the Ice Age. The PSP could be the hottest gizmo since the iPod. --By Anita Hamilton...
...most dominant aspect of Cusworth’s game was blocked shots. The 7’0 center rejected a league-best 45 attempts this season—12 better than hisnearest competitor in four fewer games. Cusworth already has 67 blocks for his career, which ranks third-best in Harvard history and leaves him just 15 shy of Bill Ewing ’99 for second...
...RETIRED. GARRY KASPAROV, 42, the world's top-ranked chess player since winning his first championship in 1985; in Moscow. A fierce, innovative competitor, Kasparov's victories were so numerous that his few losses were better known-like his 1997 defeat by a 1.2-ton IBM computer, Deeper Blue. "I am a man of big goals," the Russian grand master said upon his retirement, "but I no longer see any real goal in the world of chess." An outspoken opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kasparov said he would now spend more time focusing on politics...
Football offensive linebacker and rookie doughnut-eating competitor Adam T. Kulczycky ’06 finished his doughnuts first, clocking in at 3:13. But he was still hungry...
Reasonable people can have different beliefs about the most desirable attributes of a university president. After all, many of our competitor institutions make do with presidents who understand that their comments must be blander than my four-month-old child’s rice cereal. Controversy can create difficulties, and if avoiding controversy is more important than intellectual discourse, then the University would be better served by a genial figurehead than by a scholar-president...