Word: boxes
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With most of the Crimson players on the attack, a Friar midfielder intercepted a pass and charged in the other direction. After beating Harvard's last defender with some fancy ball handling, he was taken down hard in from behind in the box by a charging Crimson defender. Surprisingly, no card was given, but the damage was done as Providence was awarded a penalty kick. Captain Mike Eisenhut promptly beat Meagher low to the right to knot the game...
...questions. Will people still go to theaters, or even rent videos from stores? What will happen to the big studios and distributors, especially given the success of The Blair Witch Proj-ect, which formed its core audience on the Net before catapulting its way--through theatrical release--to a box-office bonanza? Will the Net open new markets for independents...
...expect to see a box-office smash online soon. Since movie files are so big, downloading is an option only for people on high-speed connections. Also, publicity is expensive--and even more necessary if the doors are thrown open to budding auteurs. Indeed, Scott Sander, president of SightSound.com says that in the month or so Cannibal has been up, fewer than 100 people have paid to see it. It seems that on the Net as well as off, there's just no accounting for taste...
Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass., a leading Internet analyst, agrees. Its report, Resizing Online Business Trade, predicts that B2B e-commerce will hit a total of $1.3 trillion by 2003, accounting for 9.4% of total U.S. business sales. Varda Lief (see the box, following), a senior analyst at Forrester specializing in e-commerce, says business-to-business transactions will far surpass business-to- consumer deals and dwarf giants like eBay and Amazon.com in revenue and sales. "Business-to-business is the stuff that makes everything run," says Lief...
Students could also vote to reverse last year's decision to eliminate the check-box option on term bills, which allowed students to forego payment of the council...