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Harvard lost to Yale by repeatedly giving up easy offensive rebounds and leaving players wide open down low--especially in the overtime. In the opening minutes of the second half in which Yale took control, Eli center Meg Simpson, a mere six feet tall, scored four easy points off offensive rebounds...
Amerika teaches digital art at the University of Colorado, where his students develop works that straddle the lines between art, film and literature. "I tell them not to get caught up in mere plot," he says. Some avant-garde writers--Julio Cortazar, Italo Calvino--have also experimented with novels that wander out of their author's control. "But what makes the Net so exciting," says Amerika, "is that you can add sound, randomly generated links, 3-D modeling, animation." That room of one's own is turning into a fun house...
...story about the presidential Inauguration costs $2.50, charged to your credit card. At Sony's music website, $1.99 lets you download singles like Rage Against the Machine's Ashes in the Fall. Internet forecasters expect more and more sites to impose smaller and smaller fees--in some cases mere fractions of a penny...
Taking even one child off the streets helps, but the numbers Ngata can accommodate are a mere drop in the bucket. Kariuki hopes his pilot project will spawn others like it. Since the personal and financial investment is a sizable one that few Kenyans can afford, the success of the idea remains to be seen. In any case, Kariuki's motivations in trying to get the project going are as much personal as they are professional. One of eight children of a Salvation Army preacher and a nurse, Kariuki started his career in marketing. After a decade, eager to work...
...Coriolanus says, we "bring in the crows to peck the eagles." The crows of the media; the crows of correctness. There's something bracing about his exhilarating contempt. It's what we miss now: not mere radio ranting, but efficacious and inner-directed contempt...