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...euphemism of choice for virtually every issue imaginable. These ran the gamut from so-called quiet hours (I thought I left those behind 10 years ago), to rules about having people over, to the cleanliness of the house, to what food was served and when, to how we would split the bills. Was the house throwing too many parties? Were the frat boys taking over the living room? Was the Harvard contingent unfriendly and antisocial? In other words, we found a way to bicker over just about everything. Some of these were stupid, others were legitimate; just about all were...
...owners are still keeping the vinyl dream alive. Here's where to replenish your wax. VIENNA Tucked away in the Windmühlgasse, just behind the city's busy Mariahilferstrasse shopping street, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records-split between classical, jazz and pop-as well as some 40,000 old 78s. The store once sold a rare shellac of Austrian violinist Marie Roeger-Soldat (born 1863) playing Mozart for $3,000, but most of the vinyl is priced between...
...millions with the celluloid bait-and-switch but denied shortchanging customers. "Hey, guy," noted a senior executive, "Tom and Dave are both adult male Americans with all their limbs and faculties intact. Both of 'em can talk and kiss and land a punch, am I right? Let's not split hairs!" And, he pointed out, the movie was two hours long and in surround sound and Technicolor, hallmarks of a Tom Cruise feature. "It's unfair," he summarized, "but come on, pal, it isn't dangerous...
...doing their darnedest to dampen the hype. The company last week gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 a share, or more than 150 times annual per-share profit. (Most large companies average about one-seventh of that.) Google watchers were split on the reason. Either Page and Brin are trying to scare away those in search of a one-day profit--by snapping up shares in the IPO at a low price and selling them as soon as the price jumps--or they want the company to be valued as highly...
...they lift their burqas to be photographed, revealing faces young and old. The turnout is encouraging - 90% of an estimated 10 million eligible voters have so far registered. And the very fact that elections can take place in this war-ravaged country is a good sign. But a growing split between the country's restive warlords and the administration of interim President Hamid Karzai is putting the outcome of the vote and the stability of the country in question. Howmaira Zamir, in charge of registration at Eid Mosque, puts the task ahead in stark terms: "This is a battle...