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...Excusing the time warp that was last year (QB Ryan Fitzpatrick is the exception, not the rule) and could possibly resurface next year (when RB Clifton Dawson is at least guaranteed to be playing professionally somewhere, even if not in this country), the Ivy League doesn’t get a lot of love from teams at the draft. Not that we really deserve it—we play Division I-AA football, in a conference without a postseason that does not give out athletic scholarships—but the sprinkles of Fitzpatrick and Dawson here and there make...
...berries while suckling an infant, stirring the pot with one eye on the toddler. Nor is electronic multitasking entirely new: we've been driving while listening to car radios since they became popular in the 1930s. But there is no doubt that the phenomenon has reached a kind of warp speed in the era of Web-enabled computers, when it has become routine to conduct six IM conversations, watch American Idol on TV and Google the names of last season's finalists all at once...
...more Star Wars movies to make. Yet, as these excerpts from our two-hour phone conversation indicate, he has thought a lot about where the medium is going, or where it ought to go. He wants the movie industry to move at the pace his mind does: warp speed...
...time in jumping into this year’s excellent “The Milk of Human Kindness,” which provided a blueprint for extended improvisation. Caribou has often been slapped with the “Intelligent Dance Music” (IDM) label, more justifiably for their Warp Records-killer debut as Manitoba than for Snaith’s more recent pastoral glitch. But instead of the timid knob-twiddling and reclusive laptopping characteristic of the genre, Caribou played like a real live band. In fact, there were no computers in sight: the album’s dense...
...black Democrats in the South, has increased minority representation but decreased the number of House districts where Democrats can expect to compete. A Democratic House or Senate in 2006 remains a long shot, at best. Still, it's fun to watch Rahm Emanuel in full flight, riffing at warp speed, bouncing off the walls-a Democratic operative as happy warrior for a change...