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...Koryo has the air of having been finished in a hurry. Inspector O's measured voice carries the story superbly up to its breathless climax, but in the end, some parts of the puzzle fit too neatly together while others don't fit at all. Major characters also disappear suddenly from the scene and with barely any reason. Church excuses this as art imitating life, explaining: "If you deal with the place, (and more to the point, if you live in the place) you learn to accept a great deal of uncertainty, unresolved problems [and] unfinished thoughts." Most frustratingly...
...replaced it with a huge, bright, vivid screen-that touchscreen Jobs got so excited about a few paragraphs ago. When you need to dial, it shows you a keypad; when you need other buttons, the screen serves them up. When you want to watch a video, the buttons disappear. Suddenly, the interface isn't fixed and rigid, it's fluid and molten. Software replaces hardware...
...results the following year. It’s a simple quid pro quo: spend the twenty minutes required to complete your CUE evaluations each semester, and you’ll get to use the CUE guide. Students who decline to participate will simply see the CUE feature disappear from the online course shopping tool when they log in to my.harvard.edu...
...fear that many college football enthusiasts like me have is that, as examples like Alabama become more and more the norm, examples like Notre Dame will become more and more the exception - if not disappear...
Putin, says Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general who is now a maverick Duma deputy, is known for keeping score and for a long memory. So the idea that he would want an infuriating gadfly like Litvinenko to disappear is not beyond reason. But the President's defenders scoff at the idea that he might have been involved in Litvinenko's death. Putin, they say, had no need to get rid of Litvinenko; the exile was an irrelevant crank. Milton Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts...