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...Berlin the composer had the ambition to write tunes that were timeless. Berlin the musical merchant was compelled to write tunes that were timely - topical songs, whose newsworthy subjects would help sell the music. His very first hit was "Dorando," inspired by a London waiter and long-distance runner: he was the leader in the 1908 Olympic marathon but was disqualified when his supporters helped him across the finish line. Over the years he produced musical editorials supporting Al Smith and Dwight Eisenhower, opposing Prohibition ("You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake on Tea"), defending the gold standard ("Debts," with...
Finding low prices is the easy part--and the one thing all seven sites I tested did well. What really distinguishes the good bots from the bad are their rating systems, breadth of offerings and ease of use. The decidedly inferior pricescan.com searched disappointingly few merchants in all but the electronics category and seemed to have trouble simply producing coherent search results. My overall favorite, bizrate.com promptly found everything I wanted--from a bottle of Veuve Clicquot to the latest Palm computer. Because Bizrate's rankings for each site are culled from thousands of consumer surveys, rather than the handful...
...think you know what you want to buy but could use a second opinion, epinions.com is worth a visit. It's the only site that provides user ratings of both merchants and products. Unfortunately, the product selection is a bit on the slender side. It doesn't cover clothing or food, for example. And while the site's user recommendations convinced me that it was O.K. to buy the cordless screwdriver I had been eyeing, not a single merchant is listed that sells...
There are a few tricks to remember when using these sites. Keep in mind that the lowest price doesn't always mean the best deal. Shipping costs, which aren't always displayed, can quickly eat up any savings. And if a discount merchant has a poor rating or doesn't have the product in stock, that low price flashing onscreen will do you as much good Christmas morning as a lump of coal in your stocking...
...after junior forward Sam Winter hit a short-range jumper to open the second half, Dartmouth reeled off 13 unanswered points. Jumpers by McLaren and Steve Callahan then moved the Big Green within two with 12:21 to play. But Merchant made four of the game's next five baskets. The last of those--a lay-up off a steal in the Dartmouth backcourt--pushed Harvard's lead back up to double digits...