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Then trotted out a gimpy Carl Everett, the swaggering Red Sox outfielder who was pinch hitting as a final attempt to not only crack Mussina’s dominance, but also to salvage an otherwise disastrous and painful weekend for New England baseball fans...
...best be described as laid-back libertarians--they don't like laws encroaching on their territory, but they're usually too busy to care. Sklyarov's arrest changed all that. Since the DMCA makes it a criminal offense merely to make the tools that some hacker might use to crack security on a copyrighted document, hundreds of programmers suddenly feared they might also fall afoul of it. "I've been a programmer for 10 years, and this is the kind of thing you have to do all the time," says Evan Prodromou, one of the organizers of the Free Sklyarov...
...funk, a home is still a great investment. Mortgage interest is tax deductible. Capital gains are often tax free. With today's easy home-equity lines, investment gains in a house are as liquid as those from a stock or bond. Don't look for home prices to crack in a big way--just enough so that long rates finally ease and trigger another refinancing wave that should underpin the economy. If, that is, bond traders finally...
...darkening the waistbands of their bunched shorts. From his corner, Kumar barks a command and one of the men leaps at the other with his spear, its tip tracing the arc of his lunge through the air. The other man, squatting low, raises a pole above his head and crack! parries the blow. Kumar calls out a second time. Again the first fighter attacks, and the second man nimbly checks him. Then suddenly it's over: the men lay their weapons before Kumar and bow to him, touching the feet of their master...
...Chinese authorities say they are dealing with the triad menace. Last month, police in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau conducted a week-long crackdown on gangs that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests; some 35,000 police took part in Guangdong alone. But many believe the crack-down was mainly cosmetic and will leave the criminal gangs largely unharmed...