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...both sides of the personal computing world. To kick things off in style, the staff held an Out of the Box event at which the kids unpacked and were introduced to their electronic sidekicks for the first time. "There was an incredible amount of excitement and energy," Alan Bernstein, Packer's assistant head, recalls. "It was sort of like unwrapping Christmas presents." Out of the Box days have since become an annual Packer tradition...
Previewing the holiday season, analysts give Nokia the nod; Motorola's profitability lags Nokia's, and Motorola has been slow to deliver a camera phone in the U.S., a setback since sales of this item could double, to 16% of the industry total, in 2004. Writes Paul Sagawa of Bernstein Research: "The rest of the competition will eat away at its market share...
...Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised by conductor Leonard Bernstein... among other things [Plimpton] is editor of the Paris Review, a fine literary quarterly ... Says Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski: ... 'He comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be?that he should not just live off the imagination, like Proust, but should re-create...
...Mark Bernstein, author of a new book called Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession, described the tensions between Harvard and Princeton which led to an eight-year suspension of play between the teams...
According to Bernstein, The Harvard Lampoon—a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—pushed already inflamed tempers over the breaking point, when they mocked Princeton students and spread rumors of Harvard’s decision to snub Princeton in their magazine...