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While Harvard may have been prepared to row the Thames course well, it faced a racing format entirely different from that used during the dual season. Henley is arranged in a single elimination, head-to-head bracket format, where a draw determines the placement of all 32 crews...
...that came free with my external CD-R drive (a Hewlett-Packard 8200, one of the most popular). It refused to recognize most of the tunes on my hard drive, which meant I had to hunt for another program that would convert those songs into a more amenable file format. Even then, the ungrateful software served up a CD with pops and clicks after every track...
...Stewart presides over Comedy Central's The Daily Show, a blessed wedding of performer and format. Free of the burden of a full stand-up monologue, Stewart is able to put all his energy and wit into the news and guest spots. The word energy is almost too strong. Much of Stewart's humor seems to spring from an underlying terrain of world-weariness...
...general search engines, don't write them off just yet. AltaVista last month unveiled search and retrieval software that can handle more than 200 different file formats on company intranets. Over the past few weeks, Google has begun indexing text held in Adobe's popular Portable Document Format (pdf) and has added five years' worth of postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with...
Kissinger’s chapters on Asia, the Middle East and Africa follow a similar format, made repetitive by atrocious section titles (“Relations with China: The Historical Context,” followed by “Relations with China: The Strategic Context”)—sharp analysis of the historical moment the region finds itself in, explanations of how the concerns of balance of power and national interest apply, followed finally by his prescriptions...