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That changes this week, when the first HD DVD player out of the block, Toshiba's $500 HD-A1, goes on sale at Amazon.com and major U.S. retail stores. The boxy black and silver device looks like a standard DVD player--and will play standard DVDs--but also contains the hardware necessary to play HD DVDs when it's connected to an HDTV set. (And only when it's connected to an HDTV; you can't watch the new discs on your old sets...
...remake itself against a new enemy. But Rumsfeld's memo--for an Administration that had been touting its achievements overseas relentlessly for months--read like a grim descant of doubt at odds with the more optimistic line peddled almost daily to the public. A Bush aide searched for a silver lining: "If we were smart, we would take advantage of this to concede the obvious and talk about how we're trying to solve the problem...
...computer-generated voice,” he says. “A human voice is much more reassuring.” Oglesby should know—it is his own silky baritone, after all, that calls out the stops on the MBTA Red Line, Green Line, and Silver Line, and on many of the city’s buses. He has been the voice of the T since the early nineties, so every time you get off at Copley for an afternoon of shopping it’s his voice announcing your destination. “I like the Green...
...vaguely satisfying but mostly it just tickles your pickle for more chocolate. Sometimes you just lose it and eat like 5 pieces of chocolate at once, and then get so blackout that you have to skip a few days to let the dust settle. But needless to say, every silver lining has a dark, foreboding cloud around it. When you arrive at these Senior Bar events, you can never forget for a moment where you are. Just before the bar opens, a collection of strange “seniors” you’ve never seen aggressively festers around...
...novice eight races. The second varsity, composed primarily of sophomores from last year’s first freshman boat, downed a similarly sophomore-laden Brown second boat. Last year, Brown’s freshman eight took home Sprints gold to the Crimson’s bronze, though Harvard claimed silver at the IRAs in June.“The guys we were racing was mostly the freshman boat from last year,” said sophomore second varsity stroke George Kitovitz. “It was nice to beat those guys.”In the second varsity race, Brown...