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...active '68er. But he too absorbed the values of the protesters and their hunger for social justice. His ready grin and populist touch were for many young Germans a welcome relief from Helmut Kohl, his predecessor as Chancellor, whose fondness for woollen sweaters and oompah brass bands reminded many of a past their parents and grandparents preferred not to discuss. Schröder's ease in front of the camera and on the stump helped his party recoup a seven-point deficit in opinion polls prior to last month's election. There's a sense in Berlin that...
...Google will produce software products that will finally break Microsoft?s grip on the desktop. They?ve even got a lot of the same corporate DNA. Mark Stahlman, an analyst with Caris & Company, calls Sun and Google ?the same company? because so much of Google's top brass is ex-Sun. Many of those same people, about 15 years ago, hatched a plan to use technology to radically transform the way people manage information. Much of what spun out of their efforts-Java, for one thing-has been powerful, but ultimately Sun's technology wasn't cheap or secure enough...
...alumni still complain because Harvard’s non-profit status makes the salaries of HMC’s top brass public. If Harvard managed externally, these prices would be out of sight and out of mind for alumni but not the University’s financial administration. Alumni who lack the information possessed by those making the decisions should resist the temptation to get angry at headlines that blare that “top fund managers net $100 million in fiscal year 2003 payouts” and instead take into account the hidden costs that endowment managers have...
...Birmingham’s civil rights museum, so they knew exactly what the statue represented: in May 1963, acting on the orders of police commissioner Bull Connor, Birmingham police sprayed high-pressure hoses at hundreds of marching children, knocking them to the ground. Matt and Andrew were fingering the brass reconstruction when from behind them a voice called...
...Tarkenton, Mary Tyler Moore and blizzards. Carew's feats have gone virtually unnoticed by the national press ... Even when it comes, recognition has sometimes been careless and absentminded, casually askew. In Carew's playroom is a 2-ft.-high trophy--the Joe Cronin Award--all polished wood and gleaming brass. The American League presented it to the great lefthanded hitter in recognition of his fourth consecutive batting championship. On top of the trophy stands the likeness of a batter--a righthanded batter. Carew is fonder of the Medal of Honor given to him by his native Panama. Says he proudly...