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...loss of the match, Nguyen went down to his Dartmouth competitor, 6-3, 6-4. Down 5-2 in the second set, the rookie broke his opponent’s serve and held his own to bring the set within one game, but saw his chances at a comeback slip away on an ace from his opponent...
...chords, layered with drums, the band’s characteristic synthesizer, and quirky sound effects. Frontman Schneider soon interjects, “When I tell you that I need you / You don’t believe me.” Achingly whiny and painfully cliché, the vocals slip into high falsettos often distorted by underwater-like effects. Eventually the verse becomes chorus, “What do you see / When you dream about the future...
There was an envelope, but it contained only the tiniest slip of instructions: basically, download the latest version of iTunes (9.1 for those of you who must know these things) and follow the instructions from that point onward. A little hubristic, I thought, this pointed refusal to trumpet on arrival. But a half-hour after the unsurprising ritual ("Agree?" "Continue") of synching the latest of my Apple products to its desktop ancestor and uploading my iTunes library, my iPad was ready. It was as if I had known it all my life...
...After he leaves, I am finally left alone with an iPad. Finally I get some finger time. I peep under the slip holder, and there it is. When I switch it on, a little sigh escapes me as the screen lights up. Ten minutes later I am rolling on the floor, snarling and biting, trying to wrestle it from the hands of an Apple press representative. (See the best travel gadgets...
Rosier stepped up for Harvard when it counted and gave the squad set point. Unlike past matches, when the Crimson let early leads slip away, the team closed it out on a service error from the Saints to give the home squad the game...