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EXPENSIVE $1,800 SHARP SD-NX10 For your favorite golden-eared Bach-ophile, we recommend 1-Bit digital audio, a new technology that improves dynamics and frequency range. Sharp's 1-Bit desktop system with built-in CD and MiniDisc players delivers almost freakishly clear sound. www.sharp-usa.com...
...kung fu students as New York City's five boroughs could produce: a freckled Miramax exec, a black Hollywood action star, a bodybuilder with dreadlocks, a hulking ex-Marine, not to mention the extravagantly tattooed road manager of the Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill" tour. Satisfied his posse looks sharp, Yan Ming commands: "Alright, everyone. Get ready to represent!" That's when the group's standard, which reads U.S.A. SHAOLIN TEMPLE, causes a commotion. "What an outrage!" exclaims a heavyset cop at the gates of the stadium. "There is absolutely no such thing!" He lurches toward Yan Ming...
...with a thick, sweet-smelling paper and a special font (“Golden Cockerel,” for the curious) that offers, according to a note at the end of the volume, a “face of notable heft, with a dense color on the page and sharp serifs reminiscent of the carver’s chisel.” The intended effect, obviously, is one of words hewn in granite, with Rudenstine as a 21st century Moses, handing down a new set of commandments—although perhaps we should call them “suggestions...
With this task, Summers has made a fine start. It is not that he is a far better speaker than Rudenstine; Summers, alas, still sounds more like the Treasury Secretary that he was than the University president he has become. But the content of his speeches marks a sharp departure from Rudenstine’s cautious truisms...
This is a season to savor for a while and nobody deserves it more than the seniors on this team. They’ve endured the endless talk about the 1997 team and the sharp criticism for losing so many close games...