Word: salvoes
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...that's changing, with the festival's launch leading one critic in The Observer to christen Manchester, "the beating heart of cultural Britain." Typical of the festival's eclectic offerings was last week's opening salvo entitled "Monkey: Journey to the West," a kind of circus-opera extravaganza, with a set designed by the pop group Gorillaz. Based upon a 16th century Chinese legend of a monk and a wondering monkey, it featured a riveting score by Damon Albarn, of Blur fame, plus a troupe of Chinese acrobats and martial artists...
Folk wisdom holds that a change is as good as a rest. But as one Prime Minister departs and another takes office in Britain, a merciless salvo of changes is leaving some folk in Westminster praying for a rest. Civil servants have found themselves scurrying at cartoon speeds to keep the government ticking over, while politicians are distracted by concerns over the future - their own and the country...
...Amazon's move was actually a strategic salvo in the great secret war of the $60 billion music industry, the fight over Digital Rights Management, usually known by the spine-tinglingly thrilling abbreviation DRM. What's DRM? An invisible layer of software that bodyguards a computer file and limits what you can and can't do with it. Buy a song from Apple's iTunes Media Store, for example, and you can copy the file to five computers but no more. That's because the song comes with Apple's DRM software, FairPlay, baked in, and FairPlay...
...Lions have zero seniors on their roster. The Crimson, of course, has two: forward Brian Darcy and captain Jim Goffredo. While everyone on Columbia’s bench has at least one more year to look forward to, for Darcy and Goffredo this is the final salvo. Sporting the psychological edge, Harvard will step up to finish this year, like last, with a win over the Lions...
...almost scary," the letter states. "Just think it could be as simple as mailing a package just like The Unibomber [sic] use to do simple mail out a package and when the suspecting recipient opens it they don't even know what hit them, or maybe like Salvo [sic] did in the D.C. sniper case just a small hole in the trunk of the car and BANG...