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...Russian classmates in elementary or high school can attest to, excellence in education does not have much to do with free markets. We are not naive enough to believe that the market can or will solve all of our problems...
Jobs is intimidating at first. He has, after all, been portrayed as an abusive monster, and countless colleagues attest to his arrogance and intolerance. But now, even during the week of the highest stress he has faced in years, he exudes his other side: the Zen-like calm and the impish aura that make him so different from his arch friend and arch rival Gates, a man of competitive intensity and analytical rigor. This Jobs literally lopes into the room, and he keeps using the word golly. So O.K., golly, it's true that the famed "Reality Distortion Field"--that...
Just what is inappropriate is a messy issue, as citizens of Loudoun County, Va., a conservative enclave northwest of Washington, can attest. Last month, after six public hearings and over the objections of library staff, the county library board adopted the region's most restrictive Internet-access policy. Henceforth, the library will arm its computers with filters to censor obscene sites--the definition of obscenity, of course, being largely up to whichever filter Loudoun County ends up deciding to buy. Adults who want to cruise the Net sans filter will have to ask the librarian to call off the watchdogs...
...said he's open to offers of a partnership with GTE, the largest U.S. local phone company, or a Baby Bell. For now, the company is on a recruiting binge, trawling through corporate America for the talent that seems to be lacking within its walls. But as Walters can attest, hiring hot shots doesn't work if you keep throwing 'em back...
Fitful irritation and gossip, gusting to contempt; jealousy, plotting and backbiting, holding steady at obsessional hatred and spasms of baroque fury, with likelihood of budget cuts: this is the wind chart, as any veteran of the higher-ed dodge can attest, of collegial relations in a well-ordered university English department. Or so say the profs who write about such matters in satirical novels, most of them set on campuses not readily distinguishable from their...