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...conclude that there is precious little a governor can do about inter-state price manipulation by large energy firms, let alone about a nation-wide economic slump, which has cut into state revenues across the country. (And no, Mr. President, this does not let you off the hook for your genuine economic mismanagement. The federal government is in a much better position to stimulate the economy, and Dartboard does not look kindly on your failure create jobs for the last three years...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

...recently downloaded Madonna’s Immaculate Collection from Buymusic.com. After clicking on “Holiday,” I was greeted not with the familiar, exuberant hook, but with a pop-up message informing me that the files were corrupt—all of them. Holiday. Celebrate...

Author: By Dan Gilmore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: View from the Pop | 9/26/2003 | See Source »

...summer story one-upmanship, a mildly inebriated Benny Sachs ’05 was named the undisputed victor when he whipped out his finest summer accomplishment—his newly pierced penis.  The scene, which one witness equated to a tad pole dangling from a meat hook, garnered looks of horror from friends. The normally staid Benny explained why he opted to have a steel ring pierced through the head of his beloved member and out of the end of his urethra as the first decoration on his otherwise unadorned, pasty white body. “Actually...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy | 9/25/2003 | See Source »

Watching TV is like dating. Do it long enough and you hook up with people you could swear you have already encountered, somewhere in your hazy, regret-filled past. So it is with Coupling (Thursdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), an NBC Must-See-TV-night sitcom about six urban singles, of a certain well-heeled Pottery Barnitude, who drop double entendres and have slept with one another in various combinations. Nice to meet you, Ross--I mean Steve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farce Is Not with Them | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...were losing money because of it." He needed to track this item and others through the supply chain so clerks would know when to reorder and replenish the shelves. It took Ashton a year to identify RFID as a technology that would solve his problem and to hook up with two M.I.T. professors who could help him. The profs, Sanjay Sarma and David Brock, had their own obsession: getting a robot to recognize anything, whether a sheep or a car, that crossed its path. That task proved daunting until Sarma had a revelation: "Why don't you just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The See-It-All Chip | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

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