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...problem occurred when the machine ran out of room on its puny 30-gigabyte hard drive (space enough for about 10 hours of TV at best quality). Loath to delete or miss anything TiVo had saved especially for me - who wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list...
...Grover Norquist, a White House ally and the president of Americans for Tax Reform, describes as "delivering on first-tier issues." For the fiercely antitax crowd, Bush supplied his $1.1 trillion tax cut in 2001. For those in the party who obsess over judicial nominations, this Bush has not disappointed as his father did. Bush picks nominees considered ideologically sound and understands the political value of fighting for those, like Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, labeled ultraconservative by Democrats. By sticking with his core supporters on the issues they care most about, Bush has given himself leeway to disappoint them...
Ronz (3-2) didn’t disappoint, cementing his status as staff ace by scattering seven hits and three runs over his seven innings. He outdueled Tim Grant, Dartmouth’s No. 1 starter and master of a hard slider...
Baseball didn’t disappoint, as Opening Day brought more surprises than necessary to make it entertaining. The meltdown of Mets starter Tom Glavine might have been enough, but the struggles of Atlanta’s Greg Maddux and news of The Big Unit tanking pushed the fun over the top. Throw in Tampa Bay’s Carl Crawford’s bedevilment of the Red Sox with a walkoff home run that ran Boston’s bullpen ERA to the stratosphere, and we had an exciting first...
SPORTS Iraqis are passionate soccer fans. Saddam's elder son Uday heads the nation's soccer federation and Olympic committee. Athletes who have fled the country claim that he regularly tortures players, coaches and referees who disappoint...