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...mistake. Mori, a hulking ex-rugby player who shows evidence of having spent too much time at the bottom of scrums, has been a disaster since taking center stage. He has committed blunder after blunder, starting with his inability to perform the proper deep bow at Obuchi's funeral. Later Mori spoke favorably of Japan as a "divine nation," an unappreciated and embarrassing nod to the nation's militaristic past. And then there are those envelopes stuffed with 10,000-yen notes that keep turning up?or going missing. At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for example, the travel office...
...write to point out a factual error in The Crimson's review of the Hasty Pudding's show "Fangs for the Memories" (Arts, Feb. 26). The review states that towards the end of the show a group of "middle-eastern terrorists" arrives onstage to perform a dance. While I was not involved in the production of the show, the typically Russian dancing accompanied by typically Russian music suggested to me, at least, that the characters were meant to be none other than Russian dancers, and not middle-eastern terrorists...
...laying on the whip. The fleeting pleasures of intersession have been forgotten, and from Pfoho to Dunster everyone is diligently plowing ahead toward midterms and beyond. Not a moment can be wasted, not when there are job applications to fill out, interviews to undergo, labs to perform, papers to write and never ever enough time...
They've trolled antarctica for meteorites. They've scoured the Titanic for sunken treasure. They've built cars and computers and helped perform open-heart surgery. Now robots are homing in on the final frontier: your living room. Long the stuff of Star Wars fantasies and little-boy dreams, robots for real folks are here at last...
...these robots perform any useful work? Yes, but for a price. You can buy robotic vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers for $700 to $2,000, and by December, Procter & Gamble expects to be marketing automated floor cleaners to consumers under the Convenience Companions label...