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...haul their home TVs around on their laptop and phone screens without having to buy pricey video packages from mobile-phone carriers. Still, detractors question whether there is much of a demand for the Slingbox beyond sports nuts. "The Slingbox will spread, but only among a die-hard technology enthusiast group that loves electronics," says Josh Bernoff, an analyst with Forrester Research. Krikorian, of course, has almost a missionary's sense that his product will succeed. "We're tripling the number of TVs on the planet," he says, exaggerating for effect. But of all the hyped technology predictions of recent...
...more famously, perhaps, you’re familiar with junior Jarred Brown, the paragon of Harvard fandom for the past three years. Since his freshman year, the men’s hockey enthusiast has been a fixture at Bright and other venues, noticeably attending games while sporting a shirt with...
...objects such as a purse filled with cooked oatmeal. Both directors and actors are to be commended for their ability to walk the fine line between zaniness and implausibility. Particularly arresting were Michael R. Von Korff ’07’s wacky performance as a madcap duck enthusiast in “Duck” and Ellen C. Quigley ’07’s mercurial shifts in emotional expression as the cagey, egotistical Jen in “The Lifeboat is Sinking.” Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 is also...
...their houses. Places like Leverett’s JCR can become more like Currier’s Tuchman Room, where students often throw parties and hang out.Today, however, the situation is unequal: quality of life—and student satisfaction scores—differ between houses. Currier enthusiast Lindsey E. Gary ’06 attributes her house’s happiness to a multitude of common spaces which leads to a vibrant, visible community. “It’s not like one of the typical river houses where you walk up to your entryway, swipe...
...folks sending young folks to war. Stanley A. Green Stockton, California, U.S. Everybody's Encyclopedia Your story on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia [July 18] was encouraging to those of us working on the project of an international encyclopedia. As a longtime linguist who speaks 27 languages and is an enthusiast of multicultural relations among peoples all over the world, I have been supporting a project of the democratization of human knowledge via the Internet since its inception. I am a regular contributor to the Wikipedia, with articles on several subjects. Time's story proved a useful support for our dream...