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...didn’t find anything wrong with it.”LACK OF DIALOGUEAs a researcher at the Kennedy School of Government, Rahman has recently encountered greater numbers of misinformed students assuming they know all about Islam. “People think they understand Islam through the sound byte culture we’ve got,” Rahman says. He recalls an interfaith discussion group about the Danish cartoon controversy in which some Harvard students asserted confidently that the Muslim theology against representing the prophet Muhammad is a new phenomenon. “They were trying to tell...
...certainly shows like Wonder Woman can be entertaining from the kitsch factor alone." AOL executive vice president Kevin Conroy says he's "at or near the point" of selling out a full year's worth of ads before the service even launches. In2TV will juice up some shows with byte-size featurettes, quizzes and interactive segments...
...market?purveyor of old 45s, Happy Days lunch boxes and Pez dispensers?to a global powerhouse, with footprints in no fewer than 32 countries. In fact, in the first quarter of 2005, the number of registered eBay users abroad exceeded that at home. According to John Yunker, president of Byte Level Research, "by 2006, and perhaps even by the last quarter of this year, non-U.S. revenue will surpass U.S. revenue." That's because eBay's revenue growth is slowing in the U.S. as the market matures (last year domestic revenues grew 34% to $1.89 billion) and because...
...over with ideas but lacked the crucial green card that would permit him to work legally in the U.S. Since no one would ask him for his work permit if he ran the operation, he decided that it was easier to start his own company. A single ad in Byte magazine for Turbo Pascal, a $49.95 program that he designed primarily for computer professionals, triggered sales of $150,000 in the first month...
...Shakespeare of the sound-byte, the sucker punch, the hyperbolic epithet. His 1994 Rolling Stone obituary for Richard Nixon, whom he loathed, was titled “He Was a Crook”; his catchphrase was “Fear and Loathing.” With language, he was a fetishist, a libertine, drunk on whiskey and the utter extravagance of his writing...