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...regard to moving out of a free society and moving more and more toward masterminding control and regulation. WHY DO YOU FEAR AN E.U. SUPERSTATE? We spent a half-century under communist eyes. We are more sensitive than some other West Europeans. We feel things, we see things, we touch things that we don't like. For us, the European Union reminds us of COMECON [Moscow's organization for economic control of the Soviet bloc...
...sometimes shaky cocoon (their house is No. 26; the book's title refers to the twins' space in its loft), Georgia and Bessi have another place, mental as well as physical, that only they share. "This was the extra dimension," Evans writes. "The one after sight, sound, smell, touch and taste where the world multiplied and exploded because it was the sum of two people. Bright was twice as bright. All the colors were extra. Girls with umbrellas skipped across the wallpaper and Georgia and Bessi could hear them laughing." But can - and should - this special intimacy be maintained? Evans...
...company that once had a magic touch--creating the Walkman, Trinitron TV and PlayStation, among other breakthrough products--has run adrift in an age of increasing competition and digital convergence. Its core electronics business, which accounts for more than 60% of revenues (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors, ranging from Sharp televisions to Kodak digital cameras, in virtually all its product lines. Most humiliating: Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files--a gap that Apple's iPod has exploited masterfully. The company...
...below seven minutes to play, the Crimson finally provided him a little bit of breathing room just in case. Taylor stripped Trevelyan along the wall in the Saints’ zone, then dished the puck to fellow freshman Jon Pelle as he streaked towards the net. With a deft touch, Pelle lifted his shot over McKenna’s far shoulder and in to seal the victory. The goal was less the product of careful design than simple good fortune, both rookies admitted...
When I grow up, I hope I’m as happy and successful as I know my roommates will be. I hope we keep in touch, I hope our kids are pen pals, and I hope when we gather together for reunions, or for our children’s Junior Parents Weekend, that we still can still toast and remember our college days, the same ones we’re ready to live up for the next 15 months...