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This is a serious problem for any hockey program. Home is supposed to be a happy haven for a team, a place where ritual yellers conglomerate, an automatic catalyst for better hockey. You look at this season's Harvard performances, though, and you'll see that they tended to get better--and guttier--whenever the Crimson was forced to bus out of Cambridge...
...cause of this clonal empathy wouldn't be that your inner life was exactly like your clone's (it wouldn't be). The catalyst, rather, would be seeing that familiar face--the one in your high school yearbook, except with a better haircut. It would remind you that you and your clone were essentially the same, driven by the same hopes and fears. You might even feel you shared the same soul. And in a sense, this would be true. Then again, in a sense, you share the same soul with everyone...
Perhaps the most intriguing character to ID is Andy Caspar, the 26-year-old protagonist whose exit interview ("You understand that your memory ... is also the property of Omega Logic?") opens the book. His tireless idealism is the catalyst that creates the low-cost alternative to Omega's overpriced computers. In the end, Omega is forced to hire Caspar back to lead the company's Internet effort. Does the name of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs--whose public grudge against his old firm disappeared as soon as he was rehired to provide Apple with a badly needed Internet-friendly operating...
...opened and they've already seen it. Evita is, to be sure, in many ways a landmark: the most ambitious musical Hollywood has turned out in years; the culmination of an almost 20-year effort to bring the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice pop opera to the screen; the catalyst for a storm of political protest in the country where the real story took place; the inspiration for a line of makeup and a boutique at Bloomingdale's. It's an event...
...theses on the door of a church in Wittenberg, they entered the German zeitgeist with seemingly supernatural speed. "It almost appeared," marveled one 16th century writer, "as if the angels themselves had been their messengers and brought them before the eyes of all the people." The real catalyst was slightly more prosaic: the magic of technology. The printing press, which decades earlier had carried the Holy Bible to the masses, now brought them Luther's heresies. Affixed to All Saints Church on Oct. 31, 1517, the 95 theses were by December rolling off the presses in several editions...