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Until now, that is. Or so claims hyperactive computer salesman Trip Hawkins, who last week wowed a packed house at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a little black box he hopes will be the "format" -- what VCRs and video cassettes were to home video in the 1980s -- that will run home systems in years to come. Ten years ago, when Hawkins vowed to build an entertainment- software empire with unorthodox technology, he had few believers. Today, after his Silicon Valley company, Electronic Arts, stole a huge chunk of market share from giant Nintendo with popular games like...
Harvard is spared much of the reality of college sports today. The Game makes headlines, but Las Vegas bookies couldn't care less about Crimson athletes. We don't have the cameras, the future Celtics, the national attention...
...civility, to the homeless, a federal judge in Miami has ordered the city to set up two "safe zones," where those without addresses can eat, sleep and bathe without being arrested. Although the decision applies to Miami, similar legal challenges to anti-vagrancy laws are under way in Las Vegas, San Francisco, New York and elsewhere, and the Miami case breaks ground. Miami officials say they'll appeal the decision, and Vice Mayor Miriam Alonso says the judgment is bad for the city: "Homelessness is not the best image for tourism or business or the community at large." Miami also...
...bookies in Las Vegas, and they'll tell you the odds are just about even in today's gridiron matchup between Harvard and Yale...
Most cruise ships and hotels say they haven't yet got around to planning their millennium festivities. "We're worried about the cruise business this year, much less 1999," snapped a reservations manager at Princess Cruises in Los Angeles. At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, bookings are not accepted beyond May 1993, and no thought has been given to fin-de-millenaire entertainment. But don't be discouraged by such myopia; things can change at the mere drop of an inquiry. In 1983 when the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City's Times Square was still under construction, screenwriter...