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Monday night in Indianapolis, Michigan State senior guard Mateen Cleaves put together one of the gutsiest performances in the history of NCAA basketball. The image of Cleaves limping around the court with his index finger raised should leave a lasting impression on the record-low number of people who watched this year's championship game...
...vivid, button-pushing ur-outrages committed during the great '60s deconstruction of American authority (which some boomers consider to be the beginning of the world) and engraved on the national memory by photographs of the time - merging with black-and-white shots of an Abbie Hoffman type giving the finger to "Amerika," or of the student radical Mark Rudd smirking and smoking a cigar with his feet up on the desk of the president of Columbia University. Burning the flag has a force of primal, even Oedipal, transgression...
Some people melt over wafer-thin notebook PCs. Others get finger twitches thinking about their next death match in Quake III. But what really brings out the techno-geek in me is a killer search engine that finds just what I'm looking for, and fast. That's why Google has made it to the top of my bookmark file. The engine was developed by two Stanford Ph.D. students and named after the mathematical term googol, which stands for 10[100th power]. The great thing about Google is that it works...
...very liberating." A New York City lawyer, Schechter, 37, was just seven when she started going to the college's summer-vacation weeks with her family. The program was in its infancy, but over the years some 20,000 adults and children have traveled to New York State's Finger Lakes district for a summer smorgasbord of outdoor activities and the workshops and seminars taught by top Cornell faculty...
...colorfully diversified their flavor and musical knowledge. Sandoval explains "Sometimes we hang out together. We go to parties. I hope to hang out more, but I don't want us to kill each other." Not immune to acts of God, North House overcame tragedies in recent history. "Jose's Finger Incident" occurred just "three to six days before a couple Harvard and Wellesley gigs," according to Sandoval. Having fractured a finger and ripped it open, "I couldn't use it for the gig" he continues. But through the powers that be, this keyboardist heroically played a nine-finger...