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Sunday, September 02 2001

Samantha Power : Bystanders to Genocide

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I wonder if history books suffer the Soundtrack Effect.

The Soundtrack Effect is the funny way you can turn the sound off on a movie/television show and play almost any other piece of music and somehow it just seems to fit. I am reading a history of the French Revolution and it all seems eerily familiar and recognizable...

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Jan Pazdziora : Docserver.pm

"allow[s] you to convert MS proprietary formats to other formats using remote Windows machine and the original MS software. The docclient/docserver setup provides the transfer of the file from client machine to the Windows host and runs the conversion using Word, Excel or Office on that Windows machine."

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is plaintive

| source : web1913 | Plaintive \Plain"tive\, a. [F. plaintif. See {Plaintiff}, n.] 1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. --Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. ``The most plaintive ditty.'' --Landor. -- {Plain"tive*ly}, adv. -- {Plain"tive*ness}, n. | source : wn | plaintive adj : expressing sorrow [syn: {mournful}]

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Saturday, September 01 2001 ←  → Monday, September 03 2001