Word: brashness
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...this new digital arena, Kodak isn't the yellow monster. It's just one of the pack, which ranges from such tech titans as Sony and Hewlett-Packard to brash online photo start-ups like Shutterfly, Photopoint, Ofoto, Zing and Snapfish (see box). Says Eva Manolis, co-founder of Shutterfly: "We're driving our business by hope of gain rather than fear of loss...
...told my men, 'We are going to engage these guys. If I go to war, you want to go to war with me, because I will put the enemy on the bottom and we will come home alive.' That's what gained me their confidence." It was typical Waddle--brash, daring, determined to succeed. He did a series of unorthodox maneuvers with the submarine to confound the carrier group. "They couldn't find us. We ran rings around them...
However, all was not brash thunder and explosive lightning. To temper the vitrolite building through the first of two stunningly executed sets, the group called upon the folk song “Scarborough Fair” and a little known Gershwin standard, “Soon.” Perhaps the most compelling diversion was one of Scofield’s elegant compositions, an ode to his wife entitled “Mrs. Scofield’s Waltz.” A lyrical and haunting ballad, it allowed Black to soar over the melody, as he engaged in touching introspective...
...brash show of computer programming brawn, three Harvard students placed 10th last week in the prestigious 25th Annual Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programing Contest's World Finals in Vancouver, British Columbia...
...really picture it," Herbie Crichlow says, "I shouldn't be here." No kidding. A brash English import who says he's the "black sheep" of Sweden's low-key pop scene, Crichlow moved to Stockholm for one thing, or more accurately, one woman. The short story: boy meets girl on a Barbados beach, boy falls for girl, girl goes home, boy follows, freezes, acclimatizes, marries...