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...think it’s difficult because it’s a very late-arriving crowd, and it’s certainly a little bit of a letdown after the first night,” said Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91. “But as a team, we don’t get to play enough games that any of them should be letdown games...
...online. And banish the idea of a splurging for a new barbecue grill, buying an extra pair of blue jeans, or even throwing a copy of Real Simple into your cart at the supermarket checkout. Now think: doesn't a little self-denial sound soothing in this post-holiday letdown? If so, you may be ready for the Compact...
...mixed results. The thale-cress does indeed turn red when it meets nitrogen dioxide. But Aresa can't get the weed to grow large enough to be easily visible. Aresa has experimented with only one of the more than 1,600 varieties of thale-cress. Following the summer letdown, the company ordered 174 different strains, and is awaiting seeds from Libya, Norway, the Caucasus, Britain, the U.S. and elsewhere...
...most Iraqis, the Amman summit was not a letdown - only because they had no great expectations of it to begin with. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Bush offered very little in the way of new ideas and workable solutions, only familiar rhetoric and vague promises...
...BlackJack was a bit of a letdown too. When it comes to managing personal e-mail, it can't touch T-Mobile's BlackBerry Pearl, and as far as the glitzy marketing campaign ("compact 3G PDA that can do it all"), just remember that it still runs on the cumbersome, unresponsive Windows Mobile platform. Many Windows Mobile devices have crossed my path of late, and none of them have been worth discussing at length. No, the smarter of Cingular's offerings tend to leave me dumb. It's the Sync, a jam-packed regular phone, that has held my attention...