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...great ideas, some of which could change the way people live their lives." So, which inventions in the past five years does the man known as Woz think fill that bill? "The TiVo," he says, "digital cameras, some of the advances in nanotech." And he adds, with a nod to his technological pedigree, "The iPod would qualify as one of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Search for Amazing Inventions | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...gotta do.” Charles takes this maxim to heart as he heroically attempts to avenge Winston’s murder and to reclaim his family’s honor and his money in pursuing Laroche (complete with dramatic soundtrack, slow motion shoot-out scenes and the nod of the saintly Giancarlo Esposito). Thereby, “Derailed” proves that cheating is really bad, but taking law and order into one’s own hands is just fine, as long as you are guided by The RZA. ­­—Staff writer...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Derailed | 11/11/2005 | See Source »

Even now, his buddies still call him “Activity Pete,” a nod to his nearly constant need for an impromptu toss of the football or swing at the whiffle ball...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FACEOFF 2005-2006: The Road Less Traveled | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

...Cape region. The passionate new recruit is sent to proselytize in a remote area - where the church cruelly forgets him, plunging him into near-fatal hardship. As in more than a dozen other novels, including A Dry White Season (the 1989 movie version won Marlon Brando an Oscar nod), Brink rails against righteous colonialism, the father of apartheid. "My God, my God, what have we done in the name of that dominion and for the sake of that subjugation?" he asks. "All those countless dead, now rising up to nod their heads at us and shake their fists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Enough Wrongs To Write | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...would be better than listening to people repeat the same things about final clubs, year after year, punch season after punch season, ad infinitum. So from now on, when any new final club “news” arises, let’s just give it a quick nod and keep on stepping—at least until someone finds something new to say. Ashton R. Lattimore ’08, a Crimson editorial editor, is an English concentrator in Dunster House...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What Crisis? | 10/25/2005 | See Source »

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