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...myself, I'm out of here. I'm off to intern for Golf Digest magazine next semester, and I don't know if or when I'll be back writing for THC. Hope somehow our loyal readers can find a way is cope with that fact (ha!)--to all of those whom I covered and/or wrote to in the past two-and-a-half years, especially those involved with the men's hockey program, it's been real. Take care of yourselves...
Finally, this could be the year in which computers turn into Bob? Yes, Bob, the latest hoo-ha from Microsoft that is supposed to transform your computer into something more, um, human. Seeking to smooth over whatever user- unfriendliness still adheres to the latest version of Windows, Bob ties together all the uses most people will have for their home computer into cartoon-like images of a living room, kitchen or den. Many of the objects on the desks and shelves do things. Click on the paper and pencil, for example, to launch a word-processing program. Click...
...government last week, when former key ally Umberto Bossi's Northern League party -- which wanted the P.M. to sever ties to his media empire -- joined opposition parties to schedule a spate of no-confidence motions for Friday. The former partners' final exchange Wednesday: Berlusconi called Bossi "a traitor who ha...
...never took antiquity for granted, as Italians were apt to. He always seems to have thought of it as a marvelous spectacle that he, as a foreigner, was privileged to behold. "Questo giovane ha una furia del diavolo," remarked Marino, introducing him to one Roman patron -- This young man has the fury of a devil. Furia didn't simply mean rage; it suggested a state of inspiration, of contact with primeval forces that lie below the surface of culture -- the war god's frenzy, the satyr's beastliness, the erotic abandon of the maenad...
...remembered by the laugh. His muscular head would snap back, and out would come three bold, staccato barks: "Ha. Ha. Ha." That laugh helped define Burt Lancaster's personality and gave amiable employment to a generation of mimics. But the cool thing about the Lancaster laugh was that it could mean anything; it might express amusement or a jolly contempt. His smile, a CinemaScope revelation of perfect teeth, had the same enigmatic edge to it. Was it benediction or absolution? Was it seductive or -- perhaps -- a predatory baring of fangs...