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...chamomile-sipping tough guy won the nomination, but without winning people’s hearts. This was always an arranged marriage—between the desperate senator looking for an angle and the desperate Democrats looking for a winner. And like most arranged marriages, this one’s not going very well...
...triple jump, Harvard grabbed first, second and sixth to score a combined 21 points. The winner, sophomore Samyr Laine, flew by the rest of the competition, beating second-place sophomore Lawrence Adjah by almost a half a meter. Rounding out the scoring for the Crimson was Travis Hughes with a jump of 13.97 meters, just a hundredth of a meter out of fifth place...
...first ranking of flat-panel televisions in March, in response to thousands of letters from readers begging for a little guidance, says Gerard Catapano, who supervised the magazine's test. While there were some standouts in each category--conventional TVs, plasma, LCD and rear-projection--there was no clear winner. Each technology has its inherent drawbacks. The best picture-tube and rear-projection televisions, for example, can weigh more than 200 lbs. Plasma sets (named for the pixels of gas in the screen that are turned into plasma by an electrical charge) can sometimes experience "burn-in," when an image...
...been griping for years that because the exchanges allow punters to "lay" bets - bet on a horse, team or competitor to lose, rather like investors who sell stock short - they encourage corruption. No chance, say the exchanges, who insist that picking a loser is no different from picking a winner, and say their technology actually helps track unusual betting patterns. But in a report last week, a British government committee agreed that professional "layers" should be registered. Earlier this month, search engines Yahoo and Google said they would stop carrying banner ads for online casinos, fearing legal reprisals...
While Novak was reticent about his July column, he had plenty to say about the upcoming 2004 presidential election. He spent the majority of his 20-minute speech discussing what factors would ultimately determine the presidential winner, focusing on the economy and the war in Iraq...