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...there are undeniable areas of overlap between them.“My view is that there are some clear parallels that are striking,” he said. “In view of that, you got to acknowledge prior work.”Washington said he found it odd that Edin did not consult with Anderson before publishing “Promises I Can Keep,” even though the book touched on Anderson’s areas of expertise.“I find it hard to figure out how it happened that a scholar...
...could fault the loser. A dance duel created through Architecture in Helsinki smacks of peril. An eight-mate, endlessly-outfitted ensemble that defies genre, the group left no instruments unplayed. What began the night as a guitar, a bass, some drums, some voices, and a piano evolved at odd points to include a triangle, a Casio keyboard, a trumpet, a flute (total Jethro-style), a cowbell, a casaba, the string of things, a Powerbook, a breath-activated toy keyboard, many hands clapping, and all the crowd laughing.As the evening turned to night, the songs sped, the energy surged. Eyebrows raised...
...proprietary”: everyone has their own version of DRM. Many stores use a Microsoft standard, but Apple uses their own (called FairPlay), and that’s the one iPods are equipped to deal with. That means that any of the twenty million and some-odd iPod owners looking to buy music online have only one option for most songs. And once they’ve sunk a couple of bucks into these purchases, they’ve begun to build up a powerful financial disincentive against ever buying a music player not made by Apple: it wouldn?...
...After a while the demonstrators lose their fire and retreat, spent, to the side of the road. We drive west toward Pakistan and the earthquake epicenter. We pass through Uri, the nearest thing to a big town in this Indian Kashmir valley, where devastated houses barely stand at odd angles, missing walls from which crumbling rock and debris poured down. An entire row of shops has lost its front, as though sliced off by a blunt cheese wire, and bars of Lux soap, pastries and plastic toys spill out onto the street. We pass broken villages and military camps, including...
That may be, but there's a sense in which The Odd Couple tells their story, the story of two men who make each other better. As Oscar, the horndog sportswriter with a beer gut and a backward baseball cap, Lane learns a little discipline--he literally cleans up his act. And when he stands over Felix, yelling at him, begging him to let himself go, to cut loose, that could just as easily be Lane pushing Broderick. Or to put it another way, just as the shyster Max gets Leo to say in The Producers, "There...