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Kennedy's wit is astounding; she starts the paper off at a brisk clip, with a brief, but precise, justification of her topic: "Every dog must have its day: this thesis is about Rousseau's dog." "Kennedy goes on to explain her treatment of the poor creature, "By 'dog' I will mean, first, the dog as metaphor, the dog as such in Rousseau's thought. Second, there are Rousseau's actual dogs, of whom he was very fond...
Still, demand for the player has been brisk. On the first day it was available, more than 100,000 people logged onto Progressive Networks' computer. To capitalize on the interest, and to help generate Internet radio shows, the company announced last week that it would also give away the "encoder." This is the software that enables programmers to create computer-readable audio files. Making the encoder widely available will allow anyone with an Internet connection to begin broadcasting to an international audience. Says Glaser: "We want to jump start a self-publishing movement...
...Like the brisk Cambridge winds, the Harvard men's and women's track teams swept through Yale saturday at Northeastern...
...points. Now that it has settled in on a plateau above that lofty summit, people are wondering what it will take to push it to 5000. Old-timers in the market can remember the Dow bumping up against 1000 for 11 years, but lately it's made a brisk ascent: 2000 in 1987, 3000 in 1991 and 4000 in 1995, gaining 1,000 points every 1,400 days. At this pace, it will reach 5000 sometime around the turn of the century...
Likewise fresh--surprisingly so--is this 1961 musical, which has more verve than one would expect from a satire of modern business written a third of a century ago. Frank Loesser's music and lyrics, reorchestrated by Danny Troob, retain their brisk propulsion, as does Abe Burrows' book, somewhat realigned and streamlined by director Des McAnuff...