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...able to stop a rocket that was shot at him from the near left and then immediately save another ball as the Bears were able to get another shot off of the rebound. For the game, Johnson registered five saves. But Johnson was outshone by his Brown counterpart, Jarrett Leech, who put up six saves as well as the shutout for the Bears. Leech came into the game holding the number two rank for saves, and is now tied for first—with the other Brown goalie David Semenza—for shutouts with two apiece...
...this bluntly in hopes of moving the dialogue along: compared to The Graduate’s, Garden State’s soundtrack is a leech, promoting its artists but not being a useful part of the film. There are clear cases where a song is significantly part of the film, not just on top of it or behind it (8 Mile, or the ultimate music-leeching movie Moulin Rouge!). Similarly, there are clear cases where the use of pre-recorded music serves either as a juxtaposition to the action (“What a Difference Today Makes?...
...program called BitTorrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing--that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people leech, downloading content but refusing to share. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time--a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download it. All this means that the more popular...
...following months 1,200 people were arrested in a campaign so successful that the river's fate became a national election issue. When Labor won federal office in 1983 it kept its election promise to stop the project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic we'll see of his thwarted dream. Gray must never have seen the Irenabyss. The still corridor of water twists between high walls of speckled rock...
...must convince myself that I truly believe it. At least there's one bit of good news following the stock-market implosion: the idea of privatizing Social Security and turning over investment choices to individuals and their advisers is forever put to rest. PHIL LEECH Spring Lake, Mich...