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...billion in financial aid they'll receive from the Union up until 2006. They may not welcome the prospect of eventually having to share aid with Turkey, a massive country with a lower per capita gdp than all the new joiners. Still, Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul sees the glass as half-full. "Some politicians think the E.U. is a Christian club," he said. "This summit showed that this opinion isn't correct." Justice and Development Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was widely criticized alongside the Americans for being too forceful in his demands, but in effect he pulled...
...Those willing to spend the extra cash today will have to cope with a thorny question: Which type to buy, plasma or lcd? Plasma displays employ thousands of tiny glass chambers filled with a mix of gasses that light up when electrically charged. Plasma screens dominate the larger size ranges; they produce sharper colors than lcds and can be viewed more clearly from an angle. But they have a short life span?only about five years, says O'Donovan...
...betting man, but the odds are good that you, “Matt Sussman” (if that is his real name) and whatever other monosyllabic punks you drag into this FM-Arts smackdown will be weeping in pain and contrition before that three-minute glass is even halfway down. This will be a relentless vocabulatory pounding that could only be surpassed by William Safire playing George W. Bush at Scrabble. Christine Yokoyama is a 100-pound ball of four-, five-, six- and even seven-letter fury, and she will...
More from the quirkiness department: Rick Du Puy, described by some as an old-fashioned polymath for his concurrent interests in math, music theory and philosophy, betrayed the extent of his nostalgia for days past by ordering a tall glass of milk. Krish Subrahmanian, the Class of 2003’s first class marshal, also displayed self-assured innocence in his drink selection when he requested a Shirley Temple to the jaw-dropped surprise of the waitress. As she continued down the length of the table, though, she was soon fighting back an onslaught of drink pleas...
Sargent Hall has sculptures extending up to 12 inches off of the canvas, and Sargent used glass, wood, metal and a variety of paints in creating the murals. Still, the workers say it’s worth the effort. “The Straus Center would bring this passion and enthusiasm to any project, but with this project, you are there where [Sargent] stood,” said Maurer. “That is exciting...