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...What is the retro bike?" those 10-speed-pedaling hordes who brave the Cambridge cobbled streets with sufficiently pneumatic tires may wonder. The retro-bike is a genre of used bike which is turning up with alarming frequency on campus. The most common strain--sorry, retro-bikers, it is becoming common--is the Raleigh frame in a rust-eaten variant of burnt umber, olive, electric blue or the ever-present black. The metallic frame comes over both the front and back wheels half-way and preferably, in the purest strains of retro-bike, has an irregularly shaped casing over...
...Evidently aware of the widespread shock and revulsion at the high death toll, the group tried to shift responsibility to the Egyptian authorities ? claiming the "brave" gunmen would merely have kidnapped the foreigners, had police not opened fire so quickly...
...awhile it appeared that the Crimson would have to wait to finish its season for more than a foot of snow fell on the Oneonta, N.Y. area. Thanks to a field-size tarp and a handy snow plow, however, both teams were forced to brave the elements come game time...
...best example of the casinos' brave new marketing style is Harrah's Entertainment Inc. of Memphis, Tenn., which this fall launched a campaign to use a single frequent-gambler card to link the 10 million-plus people already in its databases with Harrah's 16 casinos across the country. The concept of the ATM-size card, which is inserted into the back of a slot machine to record the player's wins and losses, has been around since the early 1990s. Most casinos now offer one as part of membership in a "slot club." (By gambling, players accumulate points, like...
First-time director Andrew Niccol brings considerable visual style and an intriguing premise to this story of a Brave New Worldish society in which the preplanned, genetically made-to-order elite get the honors and opportunities, and the natural births are relegated to the grunt work. Ethan Hawke plays a "natural" who borrows the identity of a brahmin to fulfill his lifelong dream of leading a mission to outer space. Although the film suffers from unevenness, sketchy characters and muted acting, Niccol's striking images make it all easy to overlook...