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...while the fortune tellers were foreseeing Harvard’s impending doom, the team was quietly serving notice, even amid the heartbreak of its 4-3 loss to Minnesota—a unit with its own absent stars complicating the road to a three-peat—that its prospects for next season are not all that...
...George Bush likes to chuckle at this panicky stage in any drama. Throughout his career, critics have moaned fiery doom scenarios and Bush has regularly proven them wrong. From his maiden gubernatorial run as a political neophyte, to his first Presidential term's four tax cuts, he has beaten the odds by wearing down the opposition or grabbing a last minute compromise and declaring victory. ?Despite his history,? says a top White House aide, ?people say: ?yes, but this time it's different...
There's another key difference between America's Army and other games. Unlike with, say, Halo 2 or Doom 3, it's a relatively small step from virtual combat to the real thing. You can click a button in the game menu and go straight to an Army recruiting website. Theoretically, the Army can even track your performance in the game and use the information it harvests to evaluate your potential as a soldier. "That's part of the plan, but we haven't done it yet," says Wardynski. "Ultimately, if a kid comes to the Army and signs...
...euro has soared against the dollar over the past three years - it's up more than 40% since 2002 - European leaders have been trafficking in gloom and doom. Politicians gripe about the damage to their national economies. France's new Finance Minister, Hervé Gaymard, last month called the dollar's decline "very worrying" and said Washington needed to fix the problem. And German trade groups sound more like self-help gurus when they talk - as they frequently do - about the currency crossing "a pain threshold." But despite all the whining, the strong euro has been a considerable boon...
However, the miserable performance of previous events designed to utilize Loker more effectively does not doom Pub Night to a swift and ignominious end. The fundamentally better premise of Harvard Pub Night, as well as the large amount of effective energy and planning devoted to it, seems likely to result in an experience that is welcome and enjoyable. Felipe’s burritos and Pinnochio’s pizza are excellent enough in their own right; combine them with cheap beer and good music, and they can be the cornerstone for a truly enjoyable evening...