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Eton is famous for its blue bloods and for the statesmen and men of letters it has turned out. The students there acquire an elegance and gloss. Sue Townsend, author of the satirical The Queen and I and no monarchist, says, "William has that Etonian look already. The boys are...
When Stephen Bollenbach left the top financial job at the Walt Disney Co. to run the Hilton Hotel Corp. in February, he vowed to make Hilton a leader of the $20 billion U.S. gaming industry. Bollenbach hit the jackpot with just one roll of the dice last week, when Hilton...
"We need a board, first for long-term continuity, second, for institutional memory, and third to acquire diversity of opinion," Ehrlich says.
Without it, the straying mind turns subversive. By what magic, it wonders, is Cruise, who co-produced the movie and is presumably not without clout in these matters, sporting the worst haircut ever worn in public by a major movie star? How does a supposedly desperate team of rogue spooks...
From my personal theological experience, I think it is problematic to ascribe human attributes to things that are not human. If two computer personalities like the ones being developed, Cog and CYC, were connected and left alone for 24 hours, would they initiate and carry on a meaningful conversation? What...