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Storming the screen with plenty of muscle - and some steroids in the form of a last-minute 3-D version on about 1,500 screens - Clash of the Titans was No. 1 at the North American box office with $61.4 million, according to early studio estimates. The Greek-myth epic topped the previous best Easter weekend entry, 2006's Scary Movie 4, by about 50%. (Clash's $135 million budget was three times as high as SM4's.) But the movie earned about $10 million less than Fast and Furious, which opened on this (non-Easter) weekend last year...
There was an envelope, but it contained only the tiniest slip of instructions: basically, download the latest version of iTunes (9.1 for those of you who must know these things) and follow the instructions from that point onward. A little hubristic, I thought, this pointed refusal to trumpet on arrival. But a half-hour after the unsurprising ritual ("Agree?" "Continue") of synching the latest of my Apple products to its desktop ancestor and uploading my iTunes library, my iPad was ready. It was as if I had known it all my life...
...iPad is much, much bigger than the Touch, and like the Touch only partially abled when away from wi-fi (a version of the iPad that connects to AT&T's 3G network will ship in about a month). But the extra real estate does make a difference. The Touch was convenient. The iPad is intimate. Its weight, though only about a pound and a half, gives it gravity and a sense that it should be more than simply useful. (See the unveiling of Apple's iPad...
...earlier version of the Apr. 2 news article "Admissions Office Mails 2014 Decisions" incorrectly stated that a group of workers in the admissions office passed the boxes of letters from the "basement of Byerly Hall." In fact, the admissions office is located in the Cronkhite Center...
Although the SIP fund is clearly not the much-missed 2003-2007 UC party grants program, it is a more responsible and reformed version. The College cannot legally provide alcohol to underage drinkers—something that the party fund seemed to do. Yet one of the chief assets of the party fund was that it eliminated many socioeconomic barriers to holding good parties on campus. The SIP fund correctly understands this need, but tackles it in a more administratively palatable, and thus more sustainable...