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...odd way, Murtha sounded an awful lot like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who, according to high-ranking military officials, has seemed slightly annoyed that the war in Iraq has diverted resources from his real goal of "transforming" the military into a high-tech outfit that can scare the bejeezus out of China. Rumsfeld's Pentagon has refused to undertake the violent reordering of priorities-more special forces, more intelligence, zero boats-needed to fight a scruffy, labor-intensive struggle against an enemy that thrives in shadows in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Rumsfeld's relative indifference to the shooting...
...This odd legal standoff in the all-important U.S. market shows little sign of ending, as neither Republican efforts to stiffen the laws nor Democratic efforts to loosen them are getting anywhere in Congress. In the face of such inertia, gaming firms are getting brazen. One British outfit, Sportingbet, runs ads on ESPN for its Sportsbook.com site and recently put up a huge billboard in New York City's Times Square featuring a pretty model and the slogan EVERYBODY BETS. PartyGaming CEO Segal says big American media groups seem less reluctant to air gaming ads than they were...
...manufacturing firm Christie, which will provide almost 200 of Britain's new projectors. But paying for ongoing costs, such as transferring films from 35-mm to digital, encoding them and getting them to movie theaters, calls for more creative solutions. Avica, which makes servers, wants to digitize all 500-odd screens in Ireland using private funding. In its bid to convert 500 screens across Europe by 2007, Belgian firm XDC will charge theater owners a small monthly fee and make up the difference itself. And at Disney, which recently installed 84 digital projectors in the U.S. to show...
...presented at the September full Faculty meeting. The booklet, which Yagan helped to edit, was finished only weeks before the Committee’s final report was released last week. “The student essays were never really timed to have an impact on deliberations, which was odd,” Menand said.Forums were held throughout the past year on Curricular Review topics, but the insights into students’ desires that many Committee members noted resulted from informal personal interactions rather than open forums.Both Yagan and fel low Student Representative and Undergraduate Council (UC) President Matthew J. Glazer...
Instead, he started working odd jobs in his teens, primarily to “take control of my life and, you know, do what I gotta...