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...also means that we will have to accept certain mundanities of life outside a university like Harvard. Academic discourse and the search for intellectual freedom may not prevail wherever we find ourselves. The brightest stars in the pantheon of scholarship will no longer offer themselves up for our perusal twice a week at 11 a.m. We will have to content ourselves with libraries whose holdings may be less than infinite. We will no longer take for granted our membership in an enclave where truth is the highest virtue and the search for it is amply supported...
...tucks his ambition behind wire-framed glasses and a mop haircut, he is intent on moving in on Oracle's database business. After all, it's hard to imagine a task more important to the information future than data management. Microsoft has hired away some of Ellison's brightest engineers, though the impact on Oracle's business has been negligible...
This also means that Cantor will be able to attract the brightest researchers to assist him, says Georg F. Weber, an immunologist working with Cantor...
...huge gamble. But Arnault, 48, savors this kind of contrariness like one of his champagnes. "I'm not interested in anything else but the youngest, the brightest and the very, very talented," he says. And the very, very profitable. Arnault has managed, and that is the word, to coax money from top-shelf businesses. Last year LVMH earned $649 million on sales of $5.4 billion. Says he: "I have always been interested in two things: the arts and business...
...windows in my room are so dirty they make the brightest day seem like the blackest night," said Lanman-Wright resident Ian Doescher...