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...Zdrovia! Let's drink a toast to your selection of Putin. You provided an accurate perspective that is a must-read for all Americans. We need to know more about people such as Putin and runner-up Hu Jintao, since Russia and China will be our most formidable partners (not adversaries) in the 21st century. We must learn to be equals, to develop a healthy respect for them and be respected by them. Robert Schieck, Antioch...
...Freshman runner-up Justin Davidson finished less than a second behind Rathgeber...
...Zdrovia! Let's drink a toast to your selection of Putin. You provided an accurate perspective that is a must-read. We need to know more about people such as Putin and runner-up Hu Jintao, since Russia and China will be our most formidable partners in the 21st century. We must learn to be equals, to develop a healthy respect for them and be respected by them. Robert Schieck, Antioch...
...spread the news of the New York Film Critics Circle voting for the year's best films. The winner, in the film, director, screenplay and supporting actor categories? The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men, which three different people told me they'd been meaning to see. The runner-up, with wins for best actor and cinematographer? There Will Be Blood, an audience-punishing epic that doesn't open for another two weeks. Best actress? Julie Christie, in Away From Her, which earned less than $5 million in its North American release...
...winner of the DARPA Urban Challenge, Carnegie Mellon's Chevy Tahoe, a.k.a. "Boss," finished 20 minutes ahead of the runner-up, a Passat from Stanford. The Chevy's average speed of 14 m.p.h. (23 km/h) wasn't exactly blazing but was a big improvement over the 2004 race, in which no robots finished at all. The atmosphere was celebratory, though tempered by the uncanniness of watching driverless cars à la Stephen King's Christine, a 1958 Plymouth with a taste for blood. "It's pretty creepy when your vehicle starts beeping and it peels out," says a grad student...