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Money can enable satisfying acts of revenge. The wronged board member returns to acquire and dismember the company; the lottery winner leaves scheming relatives out of a will. Or how about the once trampled nation that can now afford to buy back looted artifacts in a display of economic might...
And thus Crimsonreading.org was born—a Web site where students can compare the cost of required class texts across a handful of Internet vendors as well as the putatively more pricy Coop. This year, however, presented a previously unencountered difficulty. Many course syllabi, typically posted on the Internet...
When media tycoon Rupert Murdoch gained enough support to acquire The Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones this summer, the media speculated frantically over what the move would mean for the venerable newspaper. Was the acquisition one more step towards Murdoch’s eventual media...
It is on the level of a child really. Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach. And 10-year-old boys from different cultures have more in common...
Whereas Google is a brilliant technological hack, Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering. (It wouldn't be a bad idea for Google to acquire Facebook, the way it snaffled YouTube, but it's almost certainly too late in the day for that. Yahoo! offered a billion for Facebook...