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...second is the built-in music player. This is the first Palm clone to feature a headphone jack and the ability to play MP3s--no simple trick, since the 33 MHz processor that powers these PDAs is too weak to drive MP3 music files. Sony created a neat hack: it added a digital-signal processing chip that bypasses the operating system. You'll need to shell out $150 more for a 64 MB memory stick, though--the 8 MB stick included with the unit holds three songs max. And if you want a wireless modem, you'll have to wait...
...21st century, tween-friendly McMovie, full of biting sarcasm and winking pop culture references (in the first half hour alone, the film sends up pro-wrestling and The Matrix). While watching Shrek, you can almost hear the Dreamworks writers wheeze with pain, as they try to hack-up yet another demographic-friendly allusion that is both witty and self-aware. Sure, the movie lacks class and charm-but today's kids don't want class and charm. They want attitude. And Shrek's got more attitude than a 24-hour marathon of Jeannine Garafolo standup (let us now take...
...Inside the territory destined to be known as the Beltway, many observers, Dowds of their day, greeted Lincoln as a knuckle-dragging simpleton from the backwoods. Descendants of such commentators viewed Truman as a dangerous mediocrity, an ex-haberdasher and party hack from the Kansas City machine. Commentary in our own time is liable to fall into the same supercilious perspective. We are all guilty, from time to time, of stupid judgments about leaders, because the outcomes are not known...
...understand the strands of guilt that eventually bound him into a web from which he could not escape, it is necessary to recount his crimes. He was a man who levered his way from small-time communist hack to political power by tapping into the most potent vein of historical juice in the Balkans: nationalism. Elected President of Serbia in 1990, he set out to unify the odd and unstable jumble of nationalities that crowd the Balkan peninsula--not by propagating a compelling vision for the future but by broadcasting a kind of radiant hate that warmed some Serbian hearts...
...criminologist, Hollywood can do with a little variety. Let us just hope he does not feel the need to reprise any of these I-am-an-intelligent-policeman roles in the near future, especially roles that require him to run around answering cell phones in garbage cans at some hack crook's command...