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Phoenix beats Chicago 110-100 to grab NBA's top record. Page...
Harvard got off to a slow start in its first game in 17 days, yielding the first seven points of the game to the Wildcats before coming back to grab an 18-16 lead midway through the first half...
...makings of a classic power grab. Bill Gates, the richest man in America and chairman of the world's largest PC software company, announces that his next business target is the Internet, the world's biggest-and most chaotic-computer network. The move instantly becomes topic No. 1 in boardrooms and on electronic bulletin boards around the world. The assumption is that Gates, whose software runs 9 out of 10 personal computers, will do to the Internet what he did to the PC industry: seize control of key chokepoints and leverage his advantage to extend Microsoft's domination...
Neither has Linklater. His Slacker and Dazed and Confused had huge casts, rambling narratives and a notion of film as a grab bag of blasa attitude and barroom philosophizing. It's all very '90s. Before Sunrise, on the other hand, seems instantly dated. This two-character talkfest, a kind of Eric Rohmer meets Harry meets Sally, wins points for daring to be a love story-how defiantly unhip is that?-and is presumably meant as sensitivity training for 20-year-olds. But in reaching for winsome charm, the film falls flat. This meeting of bright minds often plays like desperate...
...some of which have their own paramilitary structures. They are supposed to provide for the social and legal defense of servicemen, but such goals may quickly change if instability in Russia grows. Then these nonpolitical organizations might carry out armed actions, and the military deputies in parliament may also grab their Kalashnikovs and urge their fellow officers to join them at the barricades...