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...still young in the time when Albert, Creator of the Great Net, battled Prince W of Austin for dominion of the land. In those days we carried the first devices called PDAs, for Personal Digital Assistants, but some of us knew their power and in time called them Personal Downtime Annihilators...
They tried to do it again in Washington. Their target: a meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, two great institutions of global finance and, say critics, corporate dominion over the planet's poor and disfranchised. When the organizations met a year ago, about two dozen protesters showed up--barely enough to block a single limo. But mindful of Seattle's violence, D.C. cops last week shut down the demonstrators' "convergence" point (a warehouse) and came out in force. This time, they faced not dozens but thousands of demonstrators on the barricades, all joined by a feeling...
Coming off a dominant win over Old Dominion in their last pre-spring match, the Harvard women's tennis team finally snapped their road woes with a dominant 7-2 win in California over the University of California, Santa Barbara, March 26 to open its spring break road trip...
...match featured No. 1 freshman Sanja Bajin, who was riding a five-match winning streak with her recent play. Bajin had provided some of the Crimson's only bright spots during the absence of the injured Jain, earning recognition with wins over top-ranked players from Mississippi and Old Dominion. However, Bajin fell short in her match against the Gauchos' Cindy Ammann despite a solid comeback effort in the second set, losing...
...year after the last spike was laid on the railway that joined the Dominion of Canada from coast to coast, the Prime Minister's wife, Lady Macdonald, traveled across the new country. For 600 miles of the trip she sat in a candle box attached to the cowcatcher on the front end of the train. There she was thrilled by "the novelty, the excitement and the fun of this mad ride...with magnificent mountains before and around me, their lofty peaks smiling down on us, and never a frown on their grand faces." More than a century later, the Rockies...