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Telescopes based in Arizona spotted the star, which is three times the size of the sun, relatively hot compared to its neighbors, and bluish in color. The star has been traveling for 80 million years and is headed for the vast darkness of outer space...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Star May Have Escaped Galaxy | 2/15/2005 | See Source »

...prove Mitterrand's point, the movie opens this week in a France that seems more awash than ever in the ambiguous legacy of its last Socialist President. Mitterrand's image dominated a Parisian courtroom last week as it finished taking testimony about a vast wiretapping scheme driven in part by Mitterrand's personal obsessions. His illness, first diagnosed in 1981, the year he took power, resurfaces in lurid detail this week in a book - written by his personal doctor, Claude Gubler - originally banned by a French court in 1996 for breaching the President's medical privacy. His foreign policy, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitterrand Rising | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

Stewart's take is that while a successful jerk may be forgiven all, Eisner indulged his vanity and vindictiveness to his company's harm. He cost Disney millions of dollars and vast embarrassment by letting Katzenberg's departure deteriorate into a lawsuit. He even badmouths Lost--his own network's hit--to Stewart, to rationalize having opposed it. ("Lost is terrible," he says. "Who cares about these people on a desert island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tragic Kingdom | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

Meanwhile, he was beginning to lose faith in our AP english class. Without enough time to devote to his papers, he dashed them off. He was disappointed with the grade he received on a creative project (his were somewhat lewd but hysterical epigrams), and the vast majority of his classmates were an in-crowd of theory-spouting women. He didn’t really like them. Although he’d been an A English student, he turned his attention elsewhere...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, POP AND FIZZ | Title: It’s Simple as 1,2,3 | 2/11/2005 | See Source »

...said efforts are underway in other Houses to determine where equipment needs to be installed and that they have made progress toward providing full wireless access in “the vast majority” of student residences...

Author: By Matthew S. Lebowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Houses To Launch Wireless | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

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