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Though we appreciate the Coop's efforts to renovate itself, we cannot support the sneaky invasion of a corporate behemoth, Barnes & Noble, under the guise of Coop ownership. One of the Square's greatest assets is its variety of small bookstores. We can't help but fear that the temptations of large volume discounts and cafe croissants will eventually lead to the demise of Harvard's more charming academic booksellers. Let's hope that instead students will continue to patronize theme bookstores in the Square, not a warehouse with shelves...
Three weeks ago, it seemed as if Janet Reno may actually have found a chink in Microsoft's armor. The attorney general filed suit against the software behemoth, claiming they were bullying computer manufacturers into accepting Internet Explorer as part of the Windows 95 bundle ? in violation of a 1996 court order. But now the empire ? through its legal minions ? has struck back...
China can't get no respect. The world's most populous country, the up-and-coming superpower, the economic behemoth--none of that cuts much ice in American minds preoccupied with Tiananmen Square, Tibet and Taiwan, not to mention the Communist Party. That's precisely why China's President Jiang Zemin is so eager to come here. He may have consolidated power internally, but he desperately wants to affirm his nation's legitimacy abroad. So Jiang's aim during his eight-day state visit, the first since China's bloody suppression of the democracy movement in 1989, is nothing less...
This came on the behemoth shoulders of sophomore halfback Chris Menick, who himself turned in the second-best rushing performance in Harvard history...
...wireless technologies could lure impatient users away from cumbersome dial-up services. Customers could also become turned off by the increasingly intrusive ads, upon which AOL's flat-price business model now depends. And while Microsoft has yet to perfect its own MSN service, even Case observes that Gates' behemoth usually gets things right on the third or fourth try; when Microsoft finally gets its browser, mail, Internet access and content fully integrated into its Windows operating system, users may find it easier to get to the rich content of the Web that way rather than through the suburban environment...