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...launch a movie and TV download store for net-connected Xbox 360s on November 22, the company announced Monday. Xbox Live users will be able to rent high-definition movies from Warner Bros., and purchase high-definition TV shows from CBS. The service will also offer standard definition video content from Paramount, MTV Networks, Ultimate Fighting Championship and Turner's Cartoon Network...
...recognizing that gay marriage is a fundamental right, we can only hope that individual states will employ the most expedient means to legalize same-sex marriages. That New Jersey is making progress is certainly admirable, but that it forfeited the opportunity to solidify complete legal equality in name and content through legislative action is unfortunate...
...duty of the courts to uphold those rights when a legislature fails to. While we are unequivocally glad that the New Jersey Court unanimously agreed on the equality of rights, we cannot help but lament its refusal to make same-sex marriage equal in both name and content. Its decision to defer to the legislature on the question of nomenclature threatens to undermine the minority whom it is the judiciary’s obligation to protect. This decision is especially unfortunate as there have already been indications from the New Jersey Senate and Assembly that the legislature will settle...
...Oz’s content caters specifically to a college-age audience, but the conversational tone and juvenile literary devices would be appealing to your younger siblings as well. For example, I am still wondering why it was necessary to personify the body’s immune system as “Bob”: “If Bob is weak, you are ill more often, more seriously, and for more time,” Oz explains...
...neat French farms was harder than on the barren cliffs of Anzac Cove. "You almost think, This couldn't be a killing ground, it's too pretty," says Carlyon, 64. A journalist of the old school, he believes in seeing what you write about. With history, he must be content to recreate things, like a detective at a crime scene. "You try to redraw the landscape," he writes. "You try to draw in trench lines ... and khaki bundles hung up on barbed wire." Near Ypres, he watched archaeologists probe the spot where a man's bones had been found. They...