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GRANT DESME, a former top prospect for the Oakland Athletics, announcing Jan. 22 that he will quit baseball to become a priest...
...rival Internet executive put it. "Google is done in China, at least for now." If you Google Baidu, nearly every press story that pops up will mention its fierce rivalry with the Mountain View, Calif., company. Baidu executives now don't quite know what to make of the prospect of life without it. "Things have gotten very strange very quickly," says one. (See 25 sites we can't live without...
...only thing a Harvard student might find more tantalizing than a big fat “A” on a final paper is the prospect of a free slider after a long night of final club hopping. The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Service’s Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisors (DAPAs), whose late night deals with b.good are just one of their methods of promoting safe and responsible drinking, seems to know Harvard’s penchant for penny pinching quite well. Though some may think DAPA is no more than...
...expression “eating them alive” because that is the best way I know how to describe the situation. The crushing feeling is analogous to how it must feel for a creature to be eaten alive by a python. What makes the prospect so sickening is that the prey is still alive and conscious as the snake is swallowing them whole, caught between life and death, painfully aware that they are being eaten, but powerless to do anything about...
...leaders of the opposition, a compromise has obvious attractions. Resilient as the protesters may be, it's not clear that the Green Movement can continue indefinitely in the face of the state's overwhelmingly superior force - nor is there any visible prospect of the regime's losing control of the streets. Iconic leaders such as Karroubi, Khatami and Mousavi are perhaps less dangerous to the government free than they would be if imprisoned, because their movement's activities are so curtailed and many of their aides and allies are in jail. Moreover, the longer the protests have continued...