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...charges--was that Microsoft leveraged its power in the operating systems market to aggressively increase the market share of its browser, Internet Explorer. Round One opened in District Court, the honorable Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson presiding. It closed to the brazen bell of his finding of fact on Halloween. The date was eerily appropriate for the 207-page rant for several reasons--ghoulish economics, the monstrous presumptuousness of a philosopher king and a downright creepy disregard...
...flight-data recorder reveals that the doomed plane's initial descent was a controlled maneuver by the pilot rather than a precipitous plunge, and that the Boeing 767's thrust reversers had not deployed in mid-flight, ruling out a hypothesis popular in media coverage immediately after the Halloween night crash. The big question, of course, is what prompted the pilot, eight seconds after the autopilot disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft was designed for. The flight data recovered...
What is Guster? Well, combine ping-pong balls, party hats, two guitars, bongos, tuxedos, an improvised rocket ship and the Y2K bug... you just might come close. On Halloween Eve, when the demons were prowling the streets of Boston, a crowd gathered with Guster in the sold-out Orpheum Theater to ring in... the New Year? Let's start at the beginning...
Jimmy: "The scene played out like an aspiring young adult's nightmare. I was going to my first real taste of the band, and the concert seemed to be attended entirely by teeny-boppers of the Britney variety. And it was Halloween, so a majority of the teens were dressed in costumes, adding a surreal flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later...
Last Wednesday, an MIT sophomore involved in a prank to publicize a fraternity Halloween party ended up hospitalized after a pyrotechnic device exploded in his hands. A costumed group of students entered a crowded MIT lecture hall to promote Phi Kappa Sigma's upcoming Halloween party that raises money for the Leukemia Society of America. The packed lecture hall watched as the sophomore in question, hoping to add to the aura by creating a theatrical puff of smoke, ended up with deep gashes on his hand...