Word: vs
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...smart new movie about the birth of the PC industry, comes complete with a similar backdoor irony. Pirates' writer-director Martyn Burke (who co-wrote HBO's caustic The Pentagon Wars) plants his story in the fertile ground of the baby boomers' art-vs.-commerce conundrum. "Steve Jobs' garage is the starting point of an entire culture," Burke says. "It got going in the early '70s, when the campuses were being occupied by antiwar protesters, but these guys--Jobs, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Wozniak--were the ones who really overthrew the Establishment. And then they became everything the counterculture...
...Crawford, spokesperson for Pittsburgh public schools, doesn't want the issue framed as stadiums vs. schools. "The state has enough to do both," she says. In Philadelphia, 80% of students are poor enough to have something in common with the team owners: they, too, qualify for a free lunch. Unfortunately, they don't have a lunchroom to eat it in at Willard. Maybe they can use the new sky boxes on nongame days...
...Harvard Secular Society kicked off its year on November 2 with a debate entitled "Skeptics vs. 'The X-Files.'" Society members argued that shows like "The X-Files" portray science in a bad light while endorsing the supernatural--which society members, of course, lend no credibility...
...year before Roe vs. Wade, hepresided over a challenge to a woman's right toabortion in Connecticut," his son said. "And afterhearing the case, he actually made a strongerstatement for choice than the Supreme Court did.He said that the choice was completely up to thewoman. Period...
...SOUTER VS. SCALIA (1998) The Supreme Court Justices, both graduates of Harvard Law and appointed by Republicans, could hardly be more dissimilar in their life-styles. Financial-disclosure forms released last week highlight the differences between David Souter, 59, a modest resident of Weare, N.H., and Antonin Scalia, 63, a globetrotting crusader for conservatism...