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...this month, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology will pull the plug on dial-up Internet, a fitting death knell for an outdated technology. Though around 15 percent of Americans continue to use phone lines and chattering modems to bring e-mail and the World Wide Web into their homes, the era of dial-up is long gone. Its reign as the Internet conduit for the masses was, like most technologies in the Information Age, brief...
...world where remarks were not merely lines of text to be answered or ignored at will, I stared helplessly into my salad, hoping some form of witty discourse would manifest itself on the kale with cranberry dressing. Somewhere faintly behind me I heard the Lowell bells tolling the death knell of the art of conversation...
...Labor unions, which struck as recently as last Wednesday, have virulently opposed the new consortium, which has trimmed the 20,000 work force by some 3,000, and cut pay and benefits to those employees who remain. Unions say that joining up with Air France is essentially the death knell for the Italian carrier. More labor unrest is expected. But many ordinary Italians will finally be satisfied that an apparently viable solution had been found to avoid more public investment or outright failure of the national carrier...
...Carter III truly was one of the best albums of the year. His competition in Grammys' glamour category comes from Coldplay's slightly overhyped Viva La Vida, Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's elegant Raising Sand and Radiohead's record-industry death knell In Rainbows...
...aces to pull ahead, 17-10. Unable to close the gap, Harvard succumbed to the Beach, 25-17.The Crimson managed to keep up with the 49ers at the beginning of the second frame, but Long Beach quickly pulled away for a 25-11 victory.Sounding the final death knell for Harvard, Long Beach State hit .429 in the final set, giving it the momentum to hand the Crimson a 25-8 loss.HARVARD 3, CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE 1Starting off strong, the Crimson knocked out back-to-back victories in the first two sets (25-21, 25-23) against the Blue Devils. And although...