Word: sids
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Harvard will make the books available and Google will scan the books and bear all costs, according to Pforzheimer University Professor Sid Verba ’53, who is director of the Harvard University Library (HUL). Verba said that making Harvard’s books available digitally has long been a priority but until now has been infeasible...
...waste time on a Commodore 64 computer was to play the part of a grog-swilling buccaneer in the 17th century Caribbean: getting rich on plunder or trading among British, Spanish and French ports and trying to marry one of the governors' daughters before you retired. Now Sid Meier's classic has been given a 21st century makeover. Meier has added lush new 3-D graphics and a host of minigames within the game. You can try your hand at sword fighting or sneaking into a hostile town at night. Wooing the governor's daughter now involves dancing the right...
...seen in my life." But once Taniguchi focused on his design and began pointing out the salient features of his model, says Riley, "there came this whole level of revelation and excitement." The committee, made up of heavy-hitting art collectors like cosmetics mogul Ronald Lauder and billionaire financier Sid Bass, unanimously approved Taniguchi's plan...
...Peter "Sid" Sidebottom's constituents, he says, don't much like being in the spotlight. Since 1998, the Labor M.P. has represented the federal seat of Braddon, a quiet, largely rural electorate in north-western Tasmania of around 62,000 voters, many of them farmers and fishermen. But one of the region's other industries, forestry, keeps bringing the residents of Braddon's towns and hamlets the kind of attention that makes Sidebottom furious. "Many hundreds" of his constituents depend on the state's forestry industry, he says, and if the campaign in this election to phase out logging...
...part was integral to the record. Guy was very similar to us in a lot of ways. We'd just split up with our manager, lost our rehearsal place and we found ourselves as the only band in town really, after the [Sex] Pistols had broken up and Sid [Vicious] had died. We felt outside and I know that Guy was an outsider. He used to be a catalyst by directly physically interacting with us in the studio while we were recording. What do you mean by "directly physically interacting"? He'd get quite close indeed, especially if you were...