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Launching on Wednesday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time, Hulu (the name is derived from the Mandarin word for gourd) streams current episodes of dozens of network TV series, including hits like House, The Simpsons and Late Night With Conan O'Brien. It also has episodes from 250 classic series, such as Miami Vice and The Dick Van Dyke Show, and 100 full-length feature films including The Big Lebowski and Some Like It Hot. (Hulu currently offers shows from NBC and Fox; WB shows will be added in the next few months.) You'll also find thousands of short...
...quibbles: Hulu claims that new episodes will be available on its site by 6 a.m. Eastern Time the day after they air on TV. But when I tested the site two days before it came out of beta, the most recent episodes of Family Guy and The Simpsons were more than a week old. Hopefully this is a startup glitch that the site will work out soon. Secondly, Hulu needs to make these videos available in a mobile format, so viewers can download them to iPods and cell phones. But other than that, Hulu is a groundbreaking website that doesn...
...wasn’t mandatory,” said Tariq N. Ali ’09, the chair of the Fast-a-thon. Having deprived themselves of HUDS various grilled chicken delicacies, hungry fasters were invited to catered dinners that evening, where they gorged themselves on pizza and Middle-Eastern delicacies. The event certainly fulfilled half of its twofold agenda: HUDS donated $3,400.50 to Save the Children. But the attempt at a greater religious understanding wasn’t quite as successful. Even without ever-delicious HUDS food, swipeless students managed to sneak some snacks...
...Basketball is Lebanon's most popular sport, and for of a small Middle Eastern country with a population of a mere 4 million, the Lebanese have a surprisingly good game. Lebanon often ranks near the top of the Asian championships, lagging just behind the likes of China (population 1.3 billion). But even on court, the country's toxic brew of sectarianism and politics causes as much excitement as the athletes. All 12 of Lebanon's semi-professional basketball teams have some sort of religious or political affiliation. And despite the fact that fans from rival teams are segregated into stands...
...dissatisfied crowds that the burrito kings would be coming to Cambridge in December of 2007—leaving me with several months of gustatory heaven before graduation. The location wouldn’t be as great as Qdoba’s—Chipotle would replace the site Eastern Mountain Sports had vacated in Brattle Square—but even a trek to the end of the rainbow is nothing when a pot of delicious black beans is waiting on the other side...