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...board of directors and say, 'Next year is the year of digital cinema,'" he says. "But now it could actually be next year. The stars are aligning." Yet even when a sizeable portion of the world's projection systems are converted, they may not be the money spinner everyone hopes, experts warn. "Distribution, storage, content management, delivery of the content in a safe way - all of that is far more costly than you would assume," says Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, an economist for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Cinemas that are used to spending minimal amounts on upkeep - fixing...
...White, the essayist of The New Yorker who wrote so memorably of rural Maine. This is high company, but one additional comparison is beginning to be made. Keillor has sometimes performed in a white suit, perhaps with comparison aforethought, and so, of course, did that illustrious Midwestern yarn spinner and lecture-hall tiger Mark Twain. What some say now is that another major humorist is loose in the nation's ticklish midsection and that Keillor's storytelling approaches the quality of Twain...
...authority, professional qualification to pass a judgment on a cricketing professional," thundered Colombo's Asian Tribune in an editorial. Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Jeevan Kumaratunga told the Sunday Times that Howard's comments were "absurd," claiming that Australia "could not bear the extraordinary heights the Sri Lankan spinner was achieving." Few in Sri Lanka have forgotten that it was an Australian cricket umpire, Ross Emerson, who was among the first to cast doubt on the bowling action of Sri Lanka's favorite son by repeatedly penalizing Muralitharan for "chucking"?using a bent, instead of a regulation-straight arm?during...
...Marcus Trescothick and India's pint-sized maestro Sachin Tendulkar. Pakistan's Yousuf Youhana and Shoaib Akhtar, the "Rawalpindi Express," who can bowl a ball at 161 km/h, should be enough to keep them in contention. And don't miss Sri Lanka's man with the golden arm, spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, sometimes known as the smiling assassin because he grins incessantly as he mercilessly bowls out opposing batsmen. For South Africa, meanwhile, there is the chance to recoup from a disastrous semifinal of the 1999 World Cup, when a dreadful mix-up with two balls remaining between their batsmen Allan...
...Through the fishing line my fingers savored the quivering trill of the lure's spinner - which meant its hooks had not yet picked up any of the weeds that grow almost everywhere in the shallow lake...