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...unquestionably the most eagerly anticipated debut in the dominant home-movie format. (Last weekend, more than two weeks before it could be shipped, the box set was No. 1 in Amazon.com DVD sales.) The films--Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi--will look sharper than ever. They will be adorned with many beguiling extras, such as an interactive video game, Battlefront, the making-of documentary and a peek at next year's completion of the saga, Revenge of the Sith--which, whatever you've heard, will be the series' final chapter...
...Athens Games, which begin this week, the cat-and-mouse contest between dopers and detectives will be sharper than ever. Athletes will be policed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an independent testing body created in 1999. WADA will forward its results to the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), which can then bar athletes from competing if they test positive for any of hundreds of illegal or prohibited drugs. Since its inception, WADA has been playing catch-up with better-informed and better-equipped athletes, some of whom can pay their way into the world of designer drugs created...
...Sidekick II, unveiled last week and on sale this fall for $299, keeps the same basic shape but improves on the original in several ways, including a built-in digital camera with flash, a sharper display and a better speaker design. It comes preloaded with AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Instant Messenger. Although this version is slimmer than the original, it's slightly longer and weighs about the same. Another thing that has stayed the same is the price. Monthly fees are $20 plus the cost of your TMobile calling plan...
...frank comparison of classes, recalling both the senator’s own past rhetoric on the campaign trail and former president Bill Clinton’s sharper digs at the Bush tax cuts on Monday night, countered criticism of Kerry as an aristocratic New England liberal...
...lies elsewhere. “While I really feel sorry for the poor disturbed man, I felt and feel even sorrier for all the students who were put in fear of their lives,” Mitten says. The professor recognizes in the scare a lesson that is even sharper in a post-Sept. 11 world: “It makes one realize how vulnerable we are to crazy individuals like this and to terrorism in our open urban university community...