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...individual chapters within these sections begin with detailed individual narratives that are later linked to the broader plot. Though these transitions can at times seem too temporally driven—most of them begin with dates and their corresponding events—they do the trick, and keep the reader hooked in a story with tiny but salient details, such as the physical appearance of a particular reporter, or the layout of the Times’ cafeteria...
...House has hosted many such events in the past when other residents, including Kirshner, have published books. Last year, the House threw a party for former Quincy resident tutor Timothy P. McCarthy ’93 and current resident tutor John C. McMillian, when the duo published The Radical Reader...
...been compared, in all seriousness, to Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bill Clinton. Democrats debate whether he should run for President in 2012 or 2016. "No Chicago pol has heard this kind of flattery since an alderman compared Richard J. Daley to Jesus Christ," noted the Chicago Reader...
...trawling the Web in search of subjects for his opinion pieces. Now, thanks to a humble Web format called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), most of what he needs is ready and waiting for him on his desktop when he logs on. Andrews uses a downloadable software called a news reader to subscribe to feeds from RSS-enabled websites that match his interests in new technology. Whenever those feeds are updated, an outline of each new story appears automatically in his reader along with a link back to the full content on the originating page. It's kind of like customized...
...plans, Yahoo! acquired Oddpost, a San Francisco RSS company, in July, and could use the firm's technology to integrate RSS into the popular Yahoo! Mail service. Early next year, Apple plans to release a new version of its Safari Web browser, complete with a built-in RSS news reader. Still, mass-market adoption of RSS will probably depend on Microsoft incorporating a news reader into its next Internet Explorer or Outlook e-mail program. So far, the company has given no indication of any such plans. But if RSS numbers continue to grow, the phenomenon will become...