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...future for peer-to-peer file sharing services is, lately, looking a bit bleak. The page for StreamCast Networks’ Morpheus has a disclaimer about copyright infringement at the bottom that has grown to about three times its former length over the past two months. LimeWire now requires users to agree that they “will not use LimeWire…for copyright infringement” before they can download the software. The page for i2hub, which closed down last week under pressure from the recording industry, has been replaced with a simple memorial reading...
...week later against Brown, Harvard needed a last-minute, length-of-the-field drive to tie the score against the Bears and send the game to overtime in a contest the Crimson evnetually...
...point that he was the embodiment of his multiethnic empire, or was he just having a bit of fun? Hongli, Yongzheng's favorite son and Kangxi's most beloved grandson, became the Qianlong Emperor in 1736 when he was 24. He abdicated 60 years later, not wanting the length of his reign to eclipse that of his grandfather. During that time, he consolidated the Qing empire, strengthened the bureaucracy, improved tax collection and amassed one of the greatest art collections of all time...
...reason is that this was the first episode in Rowling?s series to feel too long; I suspect that the unique popularity of the earlier novels had intimidated her editors and petrified their blue pencils. Whatever the reason, Goblet consumed 734 pages, more than the length of the first two books combined. It was a challenge for kids not just to read the book but to lift it. (Isometric exercises for fifth graders?) Rowling took the first 100 pages to describe just two main scenes: a fleeting glimpse of arch-villain Voldemort and his abettors, and the Quidditch World...
...This first Harry Potter film clocked in at a logorrheic 2hr33, nearly twice the length of a Disney cartoon feature. If The Sorcerer?s Stone has any merit, it was to demonstrate the elasticity of children?s attention spans; it proved that kids could sit still, enrapt, for ages. Goblet of Fire, which is not just an efficient babysitter but a wizard of a movie, will prove that adults...