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Nostradamus, The Crimson, and other prophets of doom had been mistaken. Nary a multi-color "click" pen had been thrown, nor any "bell-ringing beef" flung upon the arrival of the randomized sophomore class into the houses. Despite valiant attempts to polarize the situation (e.g. disproportionate gender ratios), the class struggle described in Karl Marx's little-known Harvardesque Manifesto has yet come to pass...
...first order of business may be to substantially reduce Time Warner's cable-television holdings. In 1992 the company bundled its cable systems, along with Warner Bros. and HBO, into an entity called Time Warner Entertainment, and then sold 25% of it to US West, the Denver-based Baby Bell, for $2.5 billion. In doing so, the company misguidedly ceded to US West a lot of control over any big decision regarding these businesses--such as selling any of them. US West is strategically committed to cable because the company sees the cable-telephone hybrid as the perfect pipeline into...
Long ago in China, Knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been order outlaw knot-maker...
Walking along the Charles, in the shadow of Harvard's bell towers, it is easy to be overcome by the serenity of the river...
Since 1969, he has been doing research at Bell Labs in New Jersey...