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...Russian, podsnezhnik means “going under the snow.” But its true meaning has nothing to do with weather. According to a Russian friend, it’s an aphorism for being assassinated. Podsnezhnik was exactly what happened to renowned journalist Anna Politkovskaya two weeks ago. And with four bullet shots, Russia’s long road to Western-style public discourse took another step backward...
...Rider encourages users to "draw" their own ramps, hills, and slopes with a pencil tool, then sends a virtual sledder (wearing a red scarf) along the route until he swoops, swerves and crashes. Build an elaborate enough course and you'll feel like a little kid playing in the snow again, zooming downhill, popping up in the air, wiping out on a ramp jump a la Evel Knievel...
...addition, last weekend continued a string of appearances by national political celebrities, including Saturday's visit by U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, a potential 2008 White House hopeful. Biden, speaking less than 24 hours after a $90,000 fundraiser in the area headlined by White House spokesman Tony Snow, told local reporters that a win this fall could "change things for the next 20 years." But given how similar politically Davis and Lucas are, perhaps those changes won't be as drastic as Biden and his fellow Democrats would like to believe...
You’ll feel an inexplicable brand of joy, watching baseball in the sun while Harvard digs out from under snow...
...October, you get last Friday’s scenario in Detroit: Major League Baseball reschedules the game under the afternoon sun because of the threat of snow. You get bitter Red Sox fans who, despite their once-in-a-lifetime triumph of two seasons past, wouldn’t seem to appreciate it much, now, would they. You get Mets fans in my Kirkland House suite—two of them, in fact—staring at a potential World Series win on the 20th anniversary of Mookie, Doc, and Darryl. Sick bastards...