Word: macs
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...popularized earlier by Apple's coveted iMacs--was the year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy, as if so jazzed they could hardly contain their insides...
...council so hated? The problem is that the council has not successfully executed the kind of campus life initiatives that many students desire. We have yet to see improvements to the MAC, cable TV in the dorms, a student center or the other fantasies that most Harvard students never expect to see. Are these improvements particularly extravagant? Not really. A student center is almost ubiquitous on college campuses. Cable TV is maybe a little extravagant, but it is still fairly common for college dorms to be wired for cable. Regardless, we want our student representatives to fight for these improvements...
Nomad Jukebox CREATIVE, $500 This sleek, easy-to-use MP3 player can hold as much music as 150 CDs. The Nomad lets you record from other devices and transfer the files to your Mac or PC. Backlighted screen for your playlist...
...Improving the MAC because it's tiny and dingy...
...time for the music that marks the candidate's arrival. Mark McKinnon, Bush's media guru, sidled up to a reporter and said, "Listen to this." Instead of the usual song, a Van Halen number, the speakers in the hanger exploded with the sound of a different tune: Fleetwood Mac's Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow). Reporters started laughing when they heard it. Such a clever move, they said to each other, to play Clinton's campaign theme song at a Bush rally. In Arkansas! But suddenly, with the ear-ripping screech of a needle being dragged across...