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What's missing on The Rising is politics. Springsteen says he has never considered himself a political person, but after Ronald Reagan tried to hijack Born in the U.S.A. for his 1984 re-election campaign, the singer developed a spare but effective political voice that he generally raises on behalf of liberal causes and the occasional liberal candidate. In 1991 he played a fund raiser for the Christic Institute, a radical think tank that has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of illegal covert action in Latin America. On the subject of America's current foreign policy, he is with...
Phoebe M.W. Kosman ’05, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House. She is currently working on the railroad, where people from Connecticut patronize her. In her spare time, she watches tourists struggle with rotaries...
...demand for the even greater data capacity of 3G networks, for which they sell the infrastructure equipment. Both companies will probably do well selling camera phones. But they are also going to face a lot more competition in the handset market, predicts T-Mobile's Jones. We'll spare you the technical details, but the point about GPRS is that it makes handsets, in terms of receiving data, less like phones and more like computers. "PC players, PDA players, games makers - all these guys suddenly have the same underlying technology," says Jones. Already, low-cost Asian manufacturers are getting...
...declines to give his full name) is now devoted to this Internet cafe. In May he spent 32 hours straight here, working his way through six packs of Double Happiness cigarettes and relieving himself in a bucket by the stairs. "When our parents were young, they spent their spare time in Communist Youth League meetings," says Chen, eyelids puffy from sleep-deprived nights surfing the Web. "We fill our emptiness by living in another world...
...Southern California, our cars and motor homes happened to be parked side by side in the infield on race day. My wife recognized Cruise and asked him for an autograph. He said he was sorry, but he had to concentrate on the track. Oh, sure, I thought. Couldn't spare 10 seconds? The afternoon went by, and he had his races; I had mine. When we were all packing up, Cruise walked over to my wife as we were loading our car into the trailer. "Excuse me," he offered. "If I'm not interrupting, I can give you that autograph...