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What's really striking about this collection is the live material on the last disk. This collection has none of the problems of consistency that plague the plethora of live Otis albums currently available. Remastered and cleaned up, Rhino includes some of the best Otis tracks recorded (a soul-wrenching "Try A Little Tenderness", for one) as well as some great tracks recorded at audibly small venues--on the classic "These Arms of Mine," women can be heard repeatedly offering Otis their arms for comfort...
...package--they don't honor upgrades--you should be aware that the new WFW, although as easy to use as ever, belongs to a class of software that has come to be known as "fatware" because such software is gargantuan in size and requires a lot of RAM and disk space...
...complete installation of WFW 6.0, which includes the word processing program, document proofing tools such as a dictionary and a thesaurus, extensive on-line help and utilities that allow the user to draw simple graphs and mathematical equations, consumes almost 30 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space. The Word program itself is nearly six megabytes, almost three times the size of the previous version...
Fortunately, Microsoft provides a setup program that allows the user to choose which features to include and which ones to leave out. And the setup process is pleasantly fast and painless. Still, 10MB of free hard disk space is the least you need for installing WFW 6.0. You should also remember to reserve some room for saving documents you will later create--and of course for other applications and documents...
...Hear, ye! Hear, ye! Let freedom ring out for all our brothers and sisters to the north!" The unlikely crier, Buffalo disk jockey Darren McKee, stands near the Peace Bridge that links New York State with Ontario, bellowing excerpts from a Washington Post article through a bullhorn to Canadians on the far shore. WXYT, a Detroit AM station, provides Canadians in neighboring Windsor with an hour-long reading of the same article. The show, seditiously dubbed "Radio Free Windsor," has a loftier purpose, according to Michael Packer, WXYT's director of operations: "It's a reminder to the American side...