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...official banquets from 12 dishes to four because "first of all, most of us couldn't eat that much, and second, he thought the longer meals were a waste of time." In 1991, Zhu was recalled to Beijing, where he became Vice Premier and successfully curbed China's rampant inflation. Last year he rose to the premiership just as Asia's economic collapse threatened to push China into another abyss...
...growing popularity of MP3s has not gone unnoticed by the music industry. Major recording labels like Sony and Capitol are crying foul, claiming that rampant disregard for copyright laws by hundreds of Web sites which illegally post pirated tracks threatens to grossly undercut profits. Because MP3 technology is so advanced, it is fairly simple for anyone with the proper equipment to condense and make available whole CDs for free distribution. And with the advent of portable MP3 players now offered for about $200 by seven different companies, industry doomsayers are predicting the total financial ruin of music companies worldwide...
...despite current obstacles to procuring MP3s, the industry believes that improvements in technology will make the threat of rampant piracy a reality. In retaliation, they have concocted a series of lawsuits against anyone and everyone who could by some remote chance be held responsible for the trend. Targets include specific sites, MP3 manufacturers and even the engineers who originally created MP3 technology...
...never quite the same as the original product. For example, Temple Bar can't compare to Grafton Street any better than Euro Disney can compete with prototype theme-parks in Anaheim or Orlando. Maybe this copy-phenomenon explains our latent insecurities, which oftentimes induce an inferiority complex hidden by rampant self-justification or over-inflated egos (as exhibited in this article). Like the Academie Francaise, clinging to an exaggerated notion of French linguistic purity, Quad residents are prone to overcompensate for self-doubt inspired by the general consensus that our locale may not be as ideal as we might wish...
...come out of the closet when the weather is decent. For most Quad residents, however, biking provides the most convenient and accessible mode of alternative transportation (if the least skirt-friendly). Significantly faster than walking, biking doesn't require a schedule or any Shuttleboy savvy. And although pitfalls include rampant campus bike theft and recent legislation prohibiting sidewalk-riding, hordes of Quadlings agree with sophomore Luke E. Stoeckel '01: "I couldn't imagine my life without a bike...