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Readers will find much that is stylistically familiar in Miss Manners' Basic Training: Communication (Crown; 179 pages; $15)--referring to herself in the third person, often amusing in a column but overly arch at book length, and using the locution Gentle Reader. The text is largely a response to letters Martin has allegedly received. It starts off jauntily enough with what Miss Manners likes about life on the Internet: "Cyberspace is like space on the open seas, free of some constraints that should be observed on land." Watch out, though. Already gentility is rearing its well-coiffed head...
Music from Heaven Here come the wireless music stores. Late last year, Europe and Asia launched services for downloading full-length songs straight to mobile phones, and consumers responded. Now the U.S. is ready to get into the game, as Cingular, Sprint and Verizon Wireless all plan to launch over-the-air music stores next year. "There's an instantness that is amazing," says EMI's Adam Klein, who has helped carriers around the world launch music services. A mobile music store requires networks that can support fast downloading. Sprint and Verizon now have them, and Cingular will soon. Verizon...
...taming the strong gusts of up to 40 mph, but ultimately fell short in its fight against the wind and Bears 3-0. The weather forecast for the day described the wind as 25 mph with gusts possibly reaching higher, and at Ohiri Field these ran parallel to the length of the field.Harvard opened the first half with the wind at its back and looked to take advantage by putting the ball up into the air and forward as much as possible.This strategy proved hard to implement, however, because of the muddiness of the field after a week of rain...
While HMC has traditionally operated at arm’s length from the University, El-Erian expressed eagerness to forge closer ties, "connecting the pipes from Harvard Management to the Harvard community...
...situation was “almost like a role reversal, with the dog being the smart one and the man being the stupid one.” Though the Wallace and Gromit shorts brought him international renown, he was initially wary of putting the characters into a full-length feature. “Sometimes the fact that they’re short gives them their charm,” he says. After releasing 2000’s “Chicken Run” to universal acclaim, Park started contemplating ideas for a Wallace and Gromit feature. He?...