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...years in prison for obscene acts with minors; by hanging himself in a jail cell; in Karangasem, Bali. Brown, who was convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, received an unusually long sentence amid a campaign by Bali to shed its image as a pedophile's paradise...
Though the company is trying to shed its arrogant, customer-unfriendly image by providing road maps to new software releases, its biggest product of all isn't playing along. The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, has been delayed so much that it has acquired the nickname Long Wait. Gates recently warned that we would have to cool our heels until 2006 before we would see it--five years after the release of Windows XP--and even that date isn't certain. "We'll ship it when it's ready," says Neil Charney, director of product management for Windows...
...away at his new student center at the Illinois Institute, a campus designed and once headed by none other than Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Thanks to the sleeve for the railway that sits atop the center's V-shaped roof, it has an aggressively awkward exterior, like a shed being crushed by a giant auto muffler. Inside it's a kind of bright angular cyclotron designed for the purpose of accelerating human fusion. By encouraging students to literally cross paths at every turn, it offers itself as a substitute for the city that once bordered closely on the campus...
...contrast, we almost have to shed our national character to fit in with Americans. Many I have spoken to have asked me about India, and I am only too happy to talk about it then—but my “Indianness” only seems interesting up to a point. Each conversation lacks genuine curiosity, a desire to learn about things people don’t already know something about. Once I no longer fit into the framework of “Indian,” my nationality isn’t interesting anymore. (It?...
...their sedative effects. “It’s really very relaxing,” said Richard C. Lonsdorf ’06 as he put the finishing touches on a shallow earth-toned bowl he was glazing. A quick glance at the other projects on the shelves shed light on the students’ new-found love for clay. No less than eight ceramic shot glasses awaited their turn in the kiln...