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...ability to vote freely is under attack. Registration forms have been torn up and discarded, minorities and college students have been intimidated, and registrations have been disallowed for the slightest imperfection. Am I alone in feeling outraged, appalled, terrified? The right to vote is the very core of democracy. We cannot allow public apathy and political manipulation to undermine...
...Davis is at a critical juncture. Lately New Balance has lost share at the high end of its core runners' market to rivals like Brooks, while Adidas, Nike and Puma have been battering the brand in the more fashionable arena. New Balance is still mainly known for its running shoes and for having a lineup in multiple widths, and Davis may have missed a key opening with young shoppers a few years ago when New Balance had a hit with a hot trail-running shoe. Instead of following up, he kept other shoe designs relatively conservative compared with stylish models...
...good news for Sox fans is that core "idiots" like Johnny Damon and Kevin Millar will be back. And as the rival Yankees try to avenge this year's loss, they may find it hard to snap up the usual big names. The Yankees are saddled with multiyear, multimillion-dollar deals for pitchers Kevin Brown and Javier Vazquez, two goats of the final league-championship game, and for first baseman Jason Giambi, who is a shell of what he once was. Of course, the Yankees' deep-pocketed owner, George Steinbrenner, can budget through those problems. And Houston's Carlos Beltran...
Capulong and Scaramello may be hard-core overachievers, but they're part of a national trend. The thirst to stand out in the brutal college-admissions game is driving a kind of AP-mania all across the U.S. Last May 1.9 million AP exams were taken by 1.1 million U.S. high school students--more than double the number who took them in 1994 and more than six times the number who took them 20 years ago. During the past decade, the number of high schools offering AP classes has grown a third...
...original Half-Life borrowed technology from hard-core shoot-'em-ups and used it to spin an absorbing tale about a scientist on the run from scary-gross interdimensional aliens. This had never been done before. Half-Life 2 (PC), which arrives Nov. 16, after six years of work, is one of the most frighteningly atmospheric games I've ever seen. Humanity came out of its interdimensional scrap holding the silver medal, and now we live in an alien-run police state enforced by collaborationist thugs and towering three-legged monstrosities. Long, ringing silences, too bright sunlight and empty streets...