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...their computer screens. (The puppies' caretakers sometimes appear at the edges of the shot with food and the occasional "Good boy!" or "Hey wiggles!") Maybe it's the depressing economy or the end of the electrifying election season that's left viewers looking for a little cuteness to offset a malaise, but regardless, these tiny puppies are completely captivating. It's like the car accident you can't turn away from, except a lot less morbid and more adorable...
...Obama strong in all of the same places Kerry was strong - and he has something like 500,000 newly registered Democrats behind him. Even if only a fraction of those new Democrats turn out on Tuesday, it's hard to see how McCain can pick up enough votes to offset all those extra votes. A McCain victory at this point, Madonna said, "would go against everything we know about the state." - By Sean Scully / Philadelphia...
...very badly,” sophomore crew Quincy Bock said. Skipper Garrity helmed the A-division boat, assisted by crews Bock and junior Winston Yan. Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt competed in the B division.The A boat’s six top-ten finishes were offset by two 17th-place races, while the B boat was unable to recover from a disqualification in the fifth race of the regatta.Roger Williams emerged victorious, winning the regatta by 39 points. Harvard has one last chance to qualify for ACC’s at next weekend?...
...Robin Cormack, one of the exhibition's curators, sees the wooden sculpture as crucial to understanding the Byzantines' obsession with ceremony and mystery, which he believes were efforts to offset a low-rumbling sense of insecurity. Byzantine figures and icons seem crudely rendered to us now because the artists carefully chose to make them generic and timeless. "If you give a figure a [personalized] resemblance," Cormack explains, "it becomes ephemeral, like its model...
...September - household consumption, at only 40% of GDP (compared with about 65% in industrialized countries), isn't yet substantial enough to maintain China's high growth rates. "I don't think [domestic spending] will replace what has been lost in exports," says UBS economist Wang Tao. Nor will it offset another weakening pillar of China's economy: real estate. Rampant construction of new office towers and apartment blocks in recent years was a huge boon to growth. But government action to cool down the market, by, for example, restricting credit for property development, is resulting in a sharp falloff...