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Digital videodiscs are enormously popular, and high-definition televisions are finally starting to catch on. But the next logical step--DVDS that carry high-definition (HD) movies--has proved to be a difficult one. Ordinary DVDs can't hold the data required for true HD video, and electronics manufacturers haven't been able to agree on a new DVD format with enough capacity to do the job. Instead, they have broken into two warring camps: the so-called Blu-ray group (established by Sony and endorsed by Philips, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung) and the HD DVD Promotion Group (supported...
...other leaders, might seem tantalizing: the intimacy of a visit to the Bush ranch or Camp David. But the Chinese wanted the pomp of a formal White House welcome. And so they will get it--but with a "social lunch," not the state dinner they had desired. "We haven't had many state dinners," a White House official says, "and we think everything we do is special." Still, in the careful dance of diplomacy, such signals matter. The U.S. has an "aspiration to improve relations," says Michael Green, former National Security Council director for Asia and now a senior adviser...
...Leonel Fernndez is very much a vision man ... This is exactly the sort of visionary project he absolutely loves," says Gaetan Bucher, a Swiss-Dominican banker and the lead investor in what will essentially be an offshore entity, first trading Latin American debt and later offering a safe haven for private wealth and corporate banking...
...fourth spot. Koulbitskaya got Penn on the board with her 6-3, 6-2 win over O’Riain in the second position. Missing from the Harvard lineup this weekend was junior Preethi Mukundan, who was sick and did not travel. The Crimson will travel to New Haven to face Yale on April 21 and will play its final home match of the season against Brown on April 23. “We’ve been taking it one match at a time all season and will keep doing it,” Graham said...
Harvard entered its weekend road trip to New Haven as one of four teams, all with winning records, bunched atop the Red Rolfe Division, tied for the lead with Brown and one game clear of Yale and Dartmouth. The Crimson (14-13-1, 9-3 Ivy) moved one step closer to the ICS by splitting four games with the Bulldogs (21-14, 8-4 Ivy), remaining in first place after the Bears and Big Green also battled to a weekend stalemate...