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...Sound familiar? While it seems as though hordes of couch potatoes are snapping up the latest displays, the wonders of LCD and plasma TV technology are still well out of reach for the average shopper. True, at U.S. retailer Circuit City, sales of flat-TV models have tripled over the past year, prompting CEO W. Alan McCollough to label this Christmas "a flat-panel holiday." But as long as the price tag on a flat-screen TV is four or more times as much as a comparable tube TV, many consumers will drool and dream but not bite. "Prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flat Chance | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...negotiated hostage releases and sent relief aid around Africa. He finally persuaded his 62-year-old father to make peace with the international community--thus opening the country to foreign investment. "It took nine months--nine months!" Seif told TIME, stretching his long legs out in front of the couch under another portrait of his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libya's New Face | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...sure my mom would love to see me fair-catch a little bit more, but I’ve kind of developed this reputation,” the senior jokes, sitting on the end of the couch in his Winthrop common room. “I just feel that every time I catch a punt, there’s this chance that I’m going to go and make somebody miss, break a tackle, and get some yards to help the team...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fairly Uncatchable | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...fierce roar he appropriated in the years since his last record has been largely replaced with a coy mumble, as if he’s sleeptalking his lines from a couch in the studio instead of spitting them passionately into a mic. Just like his harshest critics, he’s a bit bored with himself, and if the apologetic “Like Toy Soldiers” is any indication, the 32year old is starting to get embarrassed of his younger self. His recent interviews, in which he sounds reflective, somber and eerily father-like, seem to support this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...watch where you step in front of the Lampoon—thanks to the permanent sidewalk coating of broken glass you’ll find outside—you’ll want to watch where you sit inside as well. Apparently there’s a particular couch that was the site of Updike’s “deflowering...

Author: By Susie E. Mcgregor, | Title: Trail of Sketchiness | 11/18/2004 | See Source »

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