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Eight out of 10 of the world's personal computers could not boot up (that is to say, start) if it were not for Microsoft's operating-system software-programs like MS-DOS, Windows and Windows NT. What is even more impressive (not to mention profitable) is that the company also dominates the market for almost every big-ticket application program, like word processing (Microsoft Word), electronic spreadsheets (Excel), filing (Access), scheduling (Project) and the new all-in-one program "suites" (Office). Microsoft's Flight Simulator is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Microsoft's electronic...
Mack sounds like the sensitive type, and financially secure to boot. But before you eligible bachelors get too excited and decide to write back to Mack, you might compare yourselves against Mack's stringent requirements. First, you'll have to be the hyper-virile type, because among all gays, "effeminacy, in speech, looks, or mannerisms, is very common." Then you'll have to bring your voice down a few octaves, because "their is a tendency to whine and shriek." And don't pay too much attention to your appearance, because, of course, "gays show much greater vanity." But be gorgeous...
...been asking students to come talk about this issue. But we figure that since the new policy has now been announced, and the entire decision-making process drawn to a close, that it would just be easier to protest a done deal, and a lot more fun to boot. After all, we can add "didn't get a say in the process" to our list of grievances. It's just like that Pforzheimer thing. We're angry and we're going to show it. Hell hath no fury like a bunch of Harvard students with time on their hands...
...think that students writing is different, no. I find students here very responsive to my technqiue of making them undergo a six-week "boot-camp" studying prosody. So much so that they are often beweildered when confronted with freedom, when it is time to try free verse...
...centerpiece of Bela Fleck's music is his banjo. Now, maybe your image of a banjo is something that sits on Granny Smith's lap while she strokes Flash the basset hound and waits for the Confederate boys to boot the Yankees out of Atlanta. There is still hope for redemption, even for those prejudiced few who've let their musical image of the banjo be perverted by Roscoe P. Coltrane and Boss...