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Gagnon says recent technological developmentshave given students the ability to acquire immenseamounts of information. She says she wants toensure that students are able to think and analyzeand "apply human values to all the informationthey're getting."
Not that "formal wear" necessarily means "prom dress." Harvard women suffer from a fear of looking too "high school" when selecting a dress for a formal. Consequently, all Harvard women must eventually acquire the Little Black Dress for that sophisticated "college" look.
But last week Gerstner, 53, proved his company was really serious about getting with it: he moved to seize control of Lotus Development Corp. and its Notes software program, one of the fastest-growing parts of the $100 billion desktop-computing industry. In an unprecedented step for Big Blue, Gerstner...
There is nothing new about such conceits, of course. "Snobbery and gardening have gone hand in hand for hundreds of years," argues Pollan. There have always been those who plant old roses with good bloodlines, he explains, and those who go for high-tech hybrid teas with names like Chrysler...
Two weeks afterderailing Microsoft Corp.'s $2 billion bid to acquire Intuitand corner the online-transactions market, the Justice Department is going after thesoftware giant's plans to expand aggressively into online services. Two leading online companies -- Prodigy and America Online -- said they had received subpoenas to cooperate with an...