Word: benenson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Benenson, who is the world's leading expert in most things, called me over the weekend. "I just got a new Palm IIIe," he bragged, referring to the popular pocket-size digital organizer. He was particularly pleased with the price ($229). I waited, for cruel effect, then asked, "Is it too late to return it?" I am such a blowhard...
...that he paid too much, or that the device is subpar. But if I were in the market for a personal digital assistant, I'd wait. I told Benenson what I can't tell you, since I'm bound by one of those stupid nondisclosure agreements. O.K., I can tell you this much: very soon, Handspring, a Palo Alto, Calif., company founded by the folks who built the original, brilliant PalmPilot, will be launching its own PDA. And if it's as good as it looks in demos, I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy anything else...
...with--among other things--a position paper on the "exploitation of the Chilean sea urchin." Billy (Amias Moore-Gerety '02) spews bad double-entendres with annoying regularity; after his girlfriends desert him, he perks up at thoughts of prefrosh virgins. When Al Gore-ish, IOP-loving Jack Canaday (James Benenson '02) discovers that Valerie (Jessica Kirshner '02) has been cheating on him, he whips out his cell phone and gives his father word of a "code red" that could destroy his (i.e., Jack's) political career. B.J. Averell '02, as a Harvard Square "pit kid," changed identities every five minutes...
...with--among other things--a position paper on the "exploitation of the Chilean sea urchin." Billy (Amias Moore-Gerety '02) spews bad double-entendres with annoying regularity; after his girlfriends desert him, he perks up at thoughts of prefrosh virgins. When Al Gore-ish, IOP-loving Jack Canaday (James Benenson '02) discovers that Valerie (Jessica Kirshner '02) has been cheating on him, he whips out his cell phone and gives his father word of a "code red" that could destroy his (i.e., Jack's) political career. B.J. Averell '02, as a Harvard Square "pitkid," changed identities every five minutes...
...weeks, Harvard will send a strong contingent of freshmen sailors--Lavers, Dorfman, Reeve, Brian Smith and James Benenson--to the Freshman Fall Invite at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. In three weeks, Captain Pete Strothman will race in the single-handed Nationals at the University of Southern California...