Word: virtualization
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Four: IT could have been some sort of virtual reality device that allows you to see what your favorite athlete sees, a la Being John Malkovich. How cool would it be to be Rick Fox and run the break with Shaq and Kobe four times a week? And how cool would it be to stay home and go one-on-one with Fox’s wife, Vanessa Williams, the other three...
...city's violence. In fact, they have most cause for revenge: when the Taliban took the city in 1998 they singled out Hazaras, who are Shi'ite Muslims (the Taliban are Sunnis) and massacred 6,000. The Hazara district in the north of the city is again a virtual no-go area for other tribes. Lootings, hijackings and robberies are commonplace. Two men were killed and five injured last week when a patrol of Atta's soldiers tried to stop a group of Mohaqiq's men supposedly stealing a car. The same night, Hazaras also hijacked a taxi and beat...
...case in various other departments as well. Thomas describes a similar situation, when the Classics department was divided about four years ago, between half a floor in Boylston (shared with Slavic Studies) and space in Widener and Pusey where senior faculty resided. This created a “virtual versus actual community,” according to Thomas, where senior faculty often came to Boylston only to check their mail. In a continuing effort to work against that trend, the Classics department has supported, along with other Boylston departments, the return of the Boylston Café as a venue...
...role that will set tongues unraveling like red carpets comes in Corey Yuen's Virtual Twilight, a sort of Charlie's Angels-goes-to-China co-funded by Columbia Asia. Mok plays a sophisticated plainclothes cop chasing two killers, dishes Shu Qi and Zhao Wei. It's the up-and-comer vs. the two It-girls of current Chinese cinema. Says mainland actress Zhao: "Karen Mok's cosmopolitan, smart, sexy?and always...
...Taliban-controlled Afghanistan is no place for children, especially young girls. That's why Parvana, the 11-year-old heroine of Deborah Ellis' children's novel The Breadwinner (Oxford University Press; 170 pages), has to make a choice: remain a girl, a virtual prisoner like all the women of Afghanistan, or cut her hair and try to pass as a boy. Parvana becomes "Kaseem...