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Microsoft is cracking the whip with Office XP Standard, which users of earlier versions can buy for $239 ($479 for new users and reformed thieves). As usual, it's packed with tempting treats. In Word, you can dictate text and let the software do the typing (with only the occasional dumb error). When your computer crashes, you can retrieve the file you were working on without losing your most recent changes. You can make PowerPoint presentations on prettier templates and flow text from one slide to the next. If you're really daring, you can copy financial data from...
...other experimental projects in the works for Europe, too. Starting in June, viewers with set-top box receivers will be able - with just a click of the remote control - to get music news, text info about artists, MTV charts and tours to pop up on their screens while they watch videos on regular MTV channels. In Britain, the company is testing ways to integrate both Internet and mobile data services with TV. A live interactive request show called Videoclash lets viewers vote for their favorite music videos via the MTV U.K. website or by using text messaging. Votes show...
...While Europe is in the digital TV vanguard, MTV is trying to leverage the most advanced applications in every region, treating each as a kind of interactive television laboratory. In Japan, which leads the world in mobile phone applications, viewers of Select MTV vote via text messaging or PCs for their favorite tunes. But because the television platform is not yet fully digital, their votes don't appear instantly on the TV screen. Shoji Doyama, chairman of MTV Japan, says that by year's end the company plans to introduce "some interactivity into all of its TV programming, permitting voting...
...political allies, Caesar and Antony, are included in the exhibition, but perhaps more interesting than any sculpted head is a joke in stone dating from 34 B.C. Inscribed in Greek on a basalt statue base found at Alexandria is a reference to "Antony, the Great, lover without peer." The text, says Higgs, contains a pun relating to the "Association of Inimitable Livers," which Plu- tarch wrote was a group established by the high-living Antony and Cleopatra in cosmopolitan Alexandria. Antony the inimitable liver became Antony the inimitable lover, both in the brothels of Alexandria and in Cleopatra...
...ashamed that The Crimson reprinted "A Grader's Reply" (Opinion, May 16). Among other blatantly sexist comments, the author of the piece (which was originally printed in 1962) states that while A's go to those essays with creativity, "The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over...