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...solely on floor plans when choosing a room. You have to actually visit the room in person before you make a commitment to it for next year. Just because someone is currently living in it doesn’t mean you should be shy when you are inspecting it. Test the Internet connection. Lie down in the beds. Sit on the toilet. You can never be too exhaustive in your testing. Trust me, you don’t want to choose a suite only to discover next year when you move in that the toilet paper dispenser is eight feet...
...addition to continuing the annual rivalry and determining England competitors, this Saturday marks the first meet at McCurdy Track since its renovation. The Crimson is eager to test out the new outdoor surface, as the former track was not a team favorite...
...trial was a test case for the Serbian justice system, and the evidence was incontrovertible: a video of the killings recorded by a member of the Scorpions and shared with his comrades as a macabre souvenir. The tape showed six handcuffed victims - two were just 17 - taunted and mocked by laughing executioners. At one point, one of the Scorpions asks a tied-up Muslim boy, who lies face down waiting to be shot: "Have you ever f - -ed?" The boy answers no. "Well, you're not going to, ever," replies the soldier, and all his comrades laugh...
Although studios are courting the top fanboys now, it wasn't always thus. AICN created a sport of snagging scoops--reviews from test screenings of unfinished films, scripts, artwork--that put Hollywood on the defensive. All that's over now. Indeed, the kind of insider status some enjoy may threaten the biggest asset the fanboys have as far as their audiences go--the fact that they're just movie-obsessed nerds like their readers. But you can't put the genie back into the bottle. The lads have become such objects of fascination for the industry that it has paid...
...ability to raise money has become an independent test of a candidate's prospects, completely apart from money's traditional role as a way to buy things. Candidates raise money not to purchase TV time and hire political consultants. They raise money to prove that they can raise money. All the major candidates have rejected federal subsidies in order to avoid the contribution limits that go with them. This includes McCain, whose name is on McCain-Feingold, the most recent failed attempt to curb money's role in politics. When the press started reporting that his campaign was in trouble...