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...employed by members of his generation. Hefigured that he had a good idea of what kind ofskills she's need to get work. It wasinconceivable to him that her skills as apainter, or an animator, could ever help her finda job. In his eyes, dropping pre-med was akin tosuicide, which is probably why he offered tofacilitate things by killing her himself. Hedidn't understand that the prospective employmentlandscape has changed, dramatically. It is notlonger necessary to work for old men inthree-piece suits. A friend of mine who livesdownstairs already works at one of those adagencies where everyone wears...
...whoa be it for anyone to think that e-mail itself is a private medium. The popular metaphor is to think of communication by e-mail as akin to communication by postcard. That is, as an e-mail message is sent across the country, and anybody with enough technical prowess can pick it up, read it and copy it. (Interestingly enough, however, the nature of the Internet protocol makes it virtually impossible for someone along the way to prevent the message from reaching its destination...
...great disservice is being done to Harvard's network users. Letting over ten thousand people falsely assume that their actions are private is akin to placing them all in a police interrogation room with a one-way mirror, and telling all of them that they are merely in a living room, being reflected by a large vanity mirror...
...features our first-chair percussionist," Bellson kidded. The blend of the traditional jazz standard and one of Ellington's most famous melodies held many treasures in store. The quintet began with "Cherokee" and then broke into choruses of "Cottontail." Throughout the second section, Swartz strummed along powerfully with something akin to religious fervor...
...when Wealth and Poverty was making waves. "I've had a friendly relationship with him for years," Gilder says, "particularly with the people around him." Gilder admits he does not have the close friendship with the new Speaker that the Tofflers enjoy. "But," he adds, "my ideology is more akin to Gingrich's." He also claims he knows more than the Tofflers do about such new technologies as fiber optics and semiconductors. "That's my business. Gingrich is interested in it. He's consulted me from time to time...