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...first time you meet a robot can be pretty disappointing. Hollywood has taught us what to expect: a trusty sidekick like R2-D2, a gleaming robo-maid like The Jetsons' Rosey or a cyberassassin like the Terminator. The reality is very different: most robots are either mindless factory drones or blue-sky academic projects that cost a fortune, break down a lot and don't do very much. Most of them don't even have death rays...
...Here in the R. Premadasa Stadium, in front of 25,000 people, Pakistan is being taught a lesson in how to play one-day cricket by the region's afterthought: Sri Lanka. Rashud, a 35-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is unperturbed. Cricket, it seems, has a way of breaking down barriers and appealing to fans' more civilized instincts. "Winning or losing does not matter," he says. "Once cricket is in the blood, it's there for life and there is no way you can get it out of your system...
...very well or have just committed a blundering faux pas. Most people were curious about Harvard, or as they called it, “McCambridge,” and wanted to know how successful we’ve been in exporting a Cambridge education. Insults aside (and we were taught to expect them, cautioned by the study abroad program sponsors that the English were a “depressed, repressed, oppressed and suppressed” people), spring in Cambridge meant drinking up (no pun intended) all the traditions we’ve kept and those we’ve lost...
...swift move to tenure one of the English department’s rising stars, the University granted an unusual internal appointment last Thursday to a 31-year-old woman who has taught at Harvard for just two years...
Price has taught several courses at Harvard, including a freshman seminar “Victorian Literature and Technology,” an introductory course “Rhetorics of Reading” and honors seminars “Sexing Victorian Fiction” and “Gender Writing in Victorian Culture...