Word: punch
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...PUNCH IN THE STOMACH?...
Erin C. Rogers, a student in the KSG program for mid-career professionals, said Nye’s March e-mail announcing the LRAP eligibility cap “was like a punch in the stomach...
...joined Sony Pictures Mobile to launch his own game for mobile phones. Snoop Dogg Boxing, available in April from most carriers, sets rudimentary fisticuffs to a Snoop Dogg sound track. Players (or should that be "playaz"?) jump in the ring and face a posse of pugilists, scoring points with punch combinations. If you make it to the final round, you face Snoop Dogg himself, who looks bulkier in his cell-phone incarnation than in real life. --By Wilson Rothman
Open Windows, Shut the Door After five years in the ring with Microsoft, E.U. competition regulators finally landed a punch against the software heavyweight last week. Brussels levied a record €497 million fine against Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, granting rivals access to information on its Windows operating system and ordering the firm to offer a second version stripped of its proprietary Media Player. Microsoft is appealing - a process that could take up to five years - but even if the new rules kick in as early as this summer, the firm will be allowed to sell the Media Player version...
DIED. JOHN WILLIAMS, 35, son of Boston Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams; of leukemia; in Los Angeles. A former minor-league ballplayer and owner of sports-related businesses, he helped turn his father into a posthumous punch line when he had the elder Williams' body frozen at an Arizona cryonics laboratory...