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...have heard that the makers of the two leading web browsers launched their latest totally free editions, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 2, within a week of each other. Feature-wise, most news reports have already declared a winner: the long-awaited IE7 may be a vast improvement over its predecessors, but the new Firefox leaves it in the dust. While that's mainly true, here's what you need to know about each one, and why you should have them both on your Windows PC. (Firefox 2 is available for Mac users, although Internet Explorer...
...swank dinner for eight or ten people in the Hollywood Hills, and Jane Wyatt, who died last week at 96, was among the guests. She was happy to speak about her career to two longtime fans (Mary C. and me) who had grown up watching her as the wise and indulgent matriarch of Father Knows Best. I didn?t want her to be my mother (I had, and have, a fabulous one, thank you), but I recognized in Jane an emissary from a vanished age of better manners, cleaner diction, gentleness and gentility. She was a lady, when that word...
...fall, it’s still a race, and we still get excited for it,” senior stroke Andrew Boston said. “It breaks up the fall season—the fall season is a really long season, and this is a fun weekend. Rowing-wise, it’s fun to get on a race course and get some hard strokes in and get the season going.”HARVARD CREWThe Crimson—whose boathouse rests in the heart of the course and whose crews are so numerous each October?...
...Dietz sees some companies positioning themselves trying to capitalize on consumers' battle of the bulge. "Companies like PepsiCo invested heavily in making 'better for you' or 'good for you' products which, from their perspective, has turned out to be a wise business decision because those product lines are growing, at least in last year's data, three times as fast as their other product lines," he said...
Dick Cheney tries to keep a low profile as Vice President, quietly advising President Bush and focusing on national security matters as far away from the spotlight as possible. That may be wise, since Cheney is not a popular man among the broader American public; his approval ratings (37% in a recent CNN poll) are lower than even the President's. But in election season the Vice President remains a big draw for conservative audiences. In this midterm election cycle, he has held 114 campaign events across the country and raised more than $40 million for the G.O.P. cause...