Word: rammed
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...Ram C. Gowda '02 says "midnight soda" is a daily event for his roommates...
...portfolio, Colombia has been off the White House's radar screen. From February to June of last year, a period during which the Colombian crisis worsened, the top aide for Latin America on the National Security Council was detached to deal with Kosovo. With Republicans threatening last summer to ram through their own billion-dollar aid package, McCaffrey began lobbying the White House for a plan...
Sumo has always seemed a peculiar sport. Two behemoth-size men in loincloths rinse out their mouths with water, throw salt in a clay ring and ram their massive bodies against each other for a few seconds under the suspended roof of a Shinto shrine. "Mysterious. Religious. Philosophical." That's how retired wrestler Keisuke Itai describes sumo. But if accusations he is making are to be believed, it is a sport that is also full of cheaters...
...Second, how old is your PC? You'll want a speedy processor (at least 300 Mhz) plus at least 2 gigabytes of hard disk space and 128 megabytes of RAM. You can get by on less, but it won't be pretty. If you got the computer before last fall, check with the maker to see if there's a BIOS upgrade needed for W2K. And if you need one, pray that it's a simple software download, not a chip that needs to be replaced...
WATCH OUT, VCR Electronics companies have been talking about recordable DVD drives for more than a year, but technical quibbles and piracy fears have kept real products out of the marketplace. Until now. Samsung's DVR-2000, which records onto DVD-RAM discs and plays regular DVD movies too, will go on sale in the U.S. in July for $2,000. Meanwhile, Pioneer is planning its own $2,400 DVD-RW version to come out sometime this fall...