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...been given early on to Gopher or WAIS (two information search technologies which have gone the way of the Dodo and the 8-track), the web might never have had enough bandwidth to gain traction. Some people occasionally find end-to-end frustrating, and sometimes quite reasonably so. Certain traffic, it seems, really is more important. In the late ’90s, when Napster entered the scene, it was so efficient at music swapping that academic uses of limited university bandwidth were hindered, so many schools (Harvard included) set out policies which gave preference to web and e-mail...
...hockey team squeezed past a scrappy Princeton squad for a 5-4 overtime win.It was actually the Tigers who kicked off the end-of-period scoring. With Princeton down 1-0 on Kevin Du’s first of three goals, senior blueliner Brett Westgarth fired a shot through traffic past Crimson netminder John Daigneau’s glove and into the right-side netting.After an opening frame in which Harvard dominated, the Tigers’ goal at 19:38 swung the momentum back in Princeton’s favor.But the Crimson didn’t lose its lead...
...tape a reality-TV show. Grandma Ouan was selected for a personal audience with Thaksin. She says she told him how she struggled to survive on $5 a week while paying off debts of $5,000 incurred by her two sons, both of whom were killed in a Bangkok traffic accident: "I asked him, 'Can you help me repay? Can you help with my grandchildren's schooling?' He said he could." He also said he would give her a cow. A grin spreads across Ouan's weathered face. Thaksin is beautiful, she says. "I want him to be Prime Minister...
...hardly new. The civil war killed 64,000 people from 1983 to 2001. Tamil rebels?who run their own shadow government, with courts, traffic cops and a national anthem behind their heavily defended borders?have long demanded that leaders in Colombo recognize their sovereignty. The rebels say that if this is granted, they are willing to discuss the establishment of a federal state. The government in Colombo still insists on a unified state. Even if some sort of compromise is reached in Geneva, President Mahinda Rajapakse, a Sinhalese nationalist elected last year, might be hard pressed to sell...
...trouble navigating the narrow car-bomb barriers at the embassy gate, and the motorcade was nowhere to be found. Even worse, as it turned out the tail-end of the motorcade, including the ambulance and some police cars, was now behind us. Once we got predictably stuck in Roman traffic, the Secret Service press agent on board our bus told the driver to let the police take the lead. The unmarked white Taurus, siren wailing, jumped in front and led us on a wild ride through the narrow, ancient streets of Rome. A second officer opened the backseat door...