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...Patriot Showdown Saturday turned into Disappointment Saturday in a heartbeat...
...narrow defeat comes just before the Crimson’s showdown with defending Ivy League champion Princeton (5-8, 4-1 Ivy) this Saturday at 12 p.m. in Princeton...
...SHOWDOWN SATURDAY...
...Reflection will come later; the battle is still raging. The next move, says Wiley, "is we go toward the ambush, to pick a fight. They started it; we're going to finish it." But word comes that the insurgents have dispersed, melting away before the showdown the Marines so desperately want, that they were trained to win. But despite their superior firepower and technology, the Marines cannot dictate the terms of this fight. Instead, they move back down the stairs once more, past women and children huddled in the front room, into their vehicles and back to the base...
...dustup that harks back to the VHS-vs.-Betamax standards showdown at the dawn of the VCR era, the industry has splintered into two warring camps over how best to implement blue-laser technology. Spearheading one group is Sony, which promotes a technology it calls Blu-ray. Sony senior vice president Kiyoshi Nishitani, a battle-tested engineer who heads up the Blu-ray initiative, says his company began work on the new technology four years ago and quickly enlisted Matsushita (best known for its Panasonic brand), Philips and Pioneer, among others, as allies in its cause. All was going well...