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They are the injured. There is no disabled list for Harvard athletics, but that doesn't mean that hurt players disappear...
That battle came to a head the first week in December, when Sun and Microsoft staged competing press conferences. Sun went first, announcing a long list of companies that had agreed to endorse Java, including IBM, Apple, DEC, Adobe, Silicon Graphics, Hewlett Packard, Oracle and Toshiba. Everybody expected Microsoft to strike back, reaffirming its commitment to its own Java-like Visual Basic. But at the last minute, Gates changed his mind, announcing that he too would license Java, while also promising somewhat menacingly to "extend...
This logic is unpersuasive. After all, what is the purpose of a memorial? What is it that elevates a memory, even a communal memory, to something more? Does simply going to war earn soldiers a monument at this university? Is a memorial merely an empirical marker, and the list of names displayed on it simply a ledger, informing posterity of those who died in which war? Or do we mean something more substantial when we build a memorial? Indeed...
...gentle reader, are no doubt aware, we are in the midst of an Austen revival, with movie versions of Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion currently in theaters and an Emma on the way (and already in video stores in the tarty guise of Clueless). Next on the list is Pride and Prejudice, Austen's wittiest tribute to hanging out and hooking up. It airs as a six-hour adaptation for TV on the Arts & Entertainment cable network over three consecutive nights beginning this Sunday...
...Israel's most-wanted list met his demise in the Gaza Strip. Yehia Ayyash, known as "the Engineer" for his bomb-making expertise, picked up the phone and was killed by an explosive planted in its earpiece. Ayyash was the alleged mastermind of the suicide bombings that have threatened the fragile peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Officially, Israel declined to take responsibility for Ayyash's death...