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...mainland, it's clear Labor, which needs an extra 13 seats, has lost two - Bass and Braddon - in Tasmania. By 6:45, the count is showing a swing to the Coalition. Before partygoers sample their first spring roll, the grim faces of Labor heavies on the big screen herald a night to forget...
...lift the mood with an address in which she lauds her leader as someone "who never stands behind people, nor in front of them - he stands side by side with them." She gets a cheer, but former Labor leader Kim Beazley draws groans while being interviewed on the screen, when he argues that the result is better than some internal polls had forecast; he even manages to squeeze in the word "terrific...
...iPod can be used as a social caller ID to screen out unwanted contact. I learned this after purchasing my own iPod last May. During reading period I needed to review some material (read: actually do a semester’s worth of work) and I retreated into social isolation in the basement of Lamont. I couldn’t be bothered with small talk when I had Kissinger’s Diplomacy staring at me and a ginormous source pack for Hist A-12 weighing down my man purse. By wearing earphones, I could easily avoid hi-hello...
...bigger--so downloads can take hours, but all three services allow you to start viewing within a few minutes. If your PC and your TV both have S-Video ports, you can use an S-Video cable to connect them--and watch your movie on the bigger screen. Sadly, I never could get Stuart Little to show up on our 27-in. set. But we're in luck, I tell the kids: Mr. Video down the street has it on DVD. --By Maryanne Murray Buechner
Groundbreaking, perhaps. But in recent years, the small screen has increasingly depicted gay characters in a number of cable and network shows including Will & Grace, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Queer as Folk and The L Word, the first two of which are certifiable hits. Do the nation's gay viewers want to watch a channel entirely devoted to their issues? Graden thinks so. "The gay characters on TV are not authentic representations," he insists. "We deserve to have a place of our own." --By Jeanne McDowell