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...Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing. It produced an intensely ?litist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl...
...rents are skyrocketing," he said. "It's been horrendous. Chain stores can come in, see if they make it for five years--it's just a drop in the bucket compared to an ad in the Super Bowl-- but we just can't afford to do that...
...women's soccer team, which had won the Olympics in 1996 against the same China squad that it beat for the 1999 World Cup at the Rose Bowl, loses a thrilling 2-1 overtime match to its rivals from Norway, the last team to beat the USA in major international competition. Women's softball rebounds from losing three straight matches, after winning 112 consecutive games prior to the slump, and avenges each of the three losses en route to the gold medal. Women's basketball withstands a hostile home crowd and dominates Australia in the gold medal match to repeat...
...source code for the music file-sharing program called Napster. He can't remember specific months, weeks or days. He was just hunched over his Dell notebook, writing the software and crashing on his uncle's sofa or the floor. Then he'd shake off fatigue, scarf a bowl of cereal and sit back down. He worked feverishly because he was sure someone else had the same idea, that any day now some software company or media conglomerate would be unveiling a version of the same application, and then Fanning's big idea wouldn't be his anymore...
...center of the scandal was Kevin Pendergast, a former Notre Dame football star who had gained fame in 1992 when he was hurriedly pressed into action during the Sugar Bowl game after the team's place kicker was injured. He kicked one field goal and an extra point at a critical time, helping the Irish to a dramatic 39-28 come-from-behind upset victory over favored Florida. Two years later, he kicked the winning field goal for Notre Dame in the Cotton Bowl in a stirring 24-21 victory over Texas A&M. He had arrived at Notre Dame...