Word: behemoths
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...Swim test. While undergraduates are no longer required to take this particular arbitrary test of adequacy (don't worry, there are many others, like Freshman Seminar applications and grades) the president, according to legend, must always be prepared for the eventuality that his or her behemoth cruise ship founders upon an iceberg. Ice floes in the Charles River simulate the freezing conditions of the North Atlantic...
...venal King Leopold of Belgium, whose epic abuses of human rights in a colony he claimed as his personal property inspired history's first international human rights campaign, as well as Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." It's still there on the map, of course - a territorial behemoth the size of Western Europe, stretching from Sudan in Africa's northeast to Angola and Zambia in its southwest. It has a flag (although its bland blue banner spangled with an assortment of gold stars looks more like the neutral emblem of some forgotten international organization). And an anthem...
...program. He didn't realize that the task was too hard, that people were too selfish to share, that big companies would shut him down. By the end of 2000, Napster had upended music's business model, survived a legal threat and found a sponsor in Bertelsmann, the media behemoth. Even if it wasn't supposed to happen this way, music may finally have changed the world...
...time until they gave up. Sometimes it tugs at the consciences of us content providers (formerly known as journalists). The use in news writing of "a parent company of this network/magazine/publication" was already widespread - this merger makes it even more so. Not to mention that there's one less behemoth out there I can make fun of without fearing for my company stock...
...nice to be wanted. It's nice to know that my news-themed content just got the inside track (don't tell the FTC I said that) to some 25 million paying subscribers. And it's nice to think that my stock in this new new-media behemoth could one day make me a man of above-average wealth - as soon the next speculative bubble hits NASDAQ. (I have one word for you: broadband...