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...monarchists won the referendum, not because Australians were devoted to the Queen and her successors but because feuding republicans couldn't agree on which model of republic to uphold. Should the new-style head of state, an Australian President, be appointed by Parliament? Or elected in a national campaign, in the American manner? The A.R.M. wanted the former, but Australians hated the idea of an American-style republic--or American-style anything--in their public life. This split the republican vote, to the boundless relief of the monarchists, who could never have carried the issue on their own. (Pollsters thought...
...afford to stock anything that won't sell in volume. But websites like MySpace or Netflix offer an endless array of obscure products, allowing users to forage successfully for Japanese ceramics or old-time bluegrass as easily as they might find the latest John Grisham book. This business model is known as the LONG TAIL THE ENTERTAINERS The song remains the same, but the way we listen to it is changing. The movie, music, book and video-game industries have all embraced the Internet ? BitTorrent This efficient way of transmitting large files can make anyone a movie distributor...
...pair will be the focus of opposing squads, they and their coach caution against viewing themselves as an inside-outside duo. The big man-little man combinations like Shaq-Wade that have become a generic recipe for success at the NBA level won’t be the model for this team. “It’s not just two guys,” coach Tommy Amaker says. “I’m more comfortable saying we need multiple players to contribute and fill those holes [left by Goffredo and Cusworth...
Mathematician Benedict H. Gross ’71 drives an early-model hybrid, a 2001 Honda Insight. (“It’s aerodynamic and made of plastic,” the former dean of the College says. “They only made a couple hundred...
...situation—the matter at hand is finding a solution to the problem of illegal immigration. Those who deal with the realities of immigration on a day-to-day basis, like governors of the border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California should be the model for how we approach the issue. It’s no coincidence that they all oppose the border wall, and yet two are Democrats and two Republicans. Despite dissimilar political ideologies, they all understand that a wall is not the solution...