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...lack of evidence. The court reconvenes this week for sentencing. MEANWHILE IN ITALY ... Basta! In a protest against "trash TV" - the game and variety shows featuring scantily clad dancers that make up much of the prime-time schedule - a Milan viewers' association launched a three-day nationwide television strike. To encourage Italians to get up off their sofas, venues including museums, theaters and restaurants offered a discount to anyone turning up with a TV remote control. Organizers were hoping that up to 400,000 people would participate, but conceded that it might be difficult to persuade some - mostly male - viewers...
...native state. Sitting in the Barker Center cafe before an afternoon class, Ziegler holds a notebook filled with scribblings in many inks. She thinks about her writing constantly—with a goal of producing three pages of fiction a day, she has to. And inspiration can strike unexpectedly...
...live in the U.S., and I had enormous sympathy for it after the vile acts of 9/11. I still do. But an almost unilateral, pre-emptive strike on Iraq in defiance of the U.N. (with no conclusive link between Iraq and al-Qaeda) and the subsequent Vietnamization of the war on terrorism are hard to swallow. Will Barrow Melbourne...
...giant decided to build its own machine. At that time, Nintendo made the Cadillac of consoles?but in coming years a challenge was fielded by the Sega Genesis, which for a time became the No. 1 machine on the market. (Sega abandoned the hardware business in 2001.) Failing to strike an agreement with Sony proved to be fateful, because as that company's PlayStation become more popular, Nintendo made a series of what analysts say were strategic mistakes. Sony, for example, opted to allow its game software to be written on standard storage devices like CDs and, later, DVDs; Nintendo...
After the initial strike, the Raiders couldn’t get past the Crimson’s stifling defense and sophomore goaltender Ali Boe, who turned away all 12 shots sent her way to earn her fourth shutout of the season...