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...enjoyed on campus for years now. Third-generation cell phones and personal digital assistants will appear with data connections fast enough to allow them to double as digital Walkmans--Walkmans that can be instantly reprogrammed with any song in existence. The era of the shrink-wrapped album with liner notes--and even of traditional pre-programmed radio--may be coming to an end. Chattering radio DJ's and Tower Records, take note...
...second debate," said Matthew Coffey, 43, the only interviewee in three days who was wildly passionate about either candidate, and possibly the only person without malaria who got chills during any of the debates. Coffey, who owns an advertising company in Brandon, said Bush is going to shrink the government, whack taxes, let people invest their own Social Security funds, keep the U.S. out of foreign skirmishes and give parents school vouchers. "I listen to Rush Limbaugh all the time," Coffey said. "And Rush is right. Do you know what I mean? Rush is right...
...things to worry about at any time. He once described himself as a "raging moderate," but he was also a loner, far from the backslapping Democratic cloakrooms. Once on board the Clinton team, he took his place to the right of Clinton and Hillary, pushing the fights to shrink the government, balance the budget, reform welfare, free up trade...
...cares more for the living than for the dead. Declaring Polynices a traitor was a political expediency, yet Creon argues it has created a peace that Antigone's actions may threaten. Abu-Ayyash has Antigone's most finely drawn character in Creon, to be sure, but he does not shrink from the task, maintaining a strong, clean elocution and succeeding at keeping his long monologues from becoming flat or boring. It may be too much to assert that he brings the other actors up to the level of his own performance, but Weidman and Kitzinger in particular are much sharper...
Unless it undergoes radical reform soon, the days of the U.S. Postal Service are probably numbered. Even its primary market, first-class mail, is expected to shrink 27% over the next decade, representing the loss of an additional $17 billion in revenues. And some analysts warn that deals with private carriers will simply undercut USPS assets, leaving it with little more than its most rural--and least profitable--routes...