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...center of this new world is a conflict between consolidation and disintermediation (a word that sounds like a tropical disease but means the removal of intermediaries, such as banks, from financial transactions). The disintermediation camp--led by software firms like Microsoft and Intuit--believes that the future will belong to companies that master the technology of this new era, firms that give investors subatomic-level control over their finances with sophisticated products that balance risk and reward, cost and value. The opposite camp--led by McColl and others--argues that the future belongs to huge financial institutions that will package...
...Stay away from all scheduled programming. Hang out on the grass, smoke cigarettes and pretend like you belong. You don’t, but this might be the most free time you'll ever have in Cambridge...
...accommodations to Chile's most isolated regions, ranging from rugged Patagonia to the arid Atacama desert in the north. His chain is geared to environment-conscious baby boomers who have limited time but substantial savings and boundless yearnings to revel in wilderness with all the comforts of home. "We belong to a culture of cities," he told me. "We do not want Explora guests to face the wilds unprotected...
...utterances. Archbuilder speech baffles her, often to the point of exasperance. During a sexually-tense moment between her and Efram, she borders on swooning and discerns the reality of her situation from dreams based on what words she hears. If they are too loaded with meaning, they probably belong to Efram and are thus not dreamt. Her awareness of the arbitrary nature of meaning seems more the state of mind of a language philosopher or an applied linguist (i.e. of a post-deconstruction academic) rather than a young adolescent. The issues that haunt Pella are the stuff of very recent...
This is one of those issues that has virtually no importance in the world, but one nonetheless on which Dartboard feels compelled to comment. The Harvard Club of New York only began accepting women in 1973, and as a result, the graduates who belong to the club, and by extension those members who get their hair cut in the barbershop, are predominantly male...