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...spokeswoman Carol A. Mason, the company has about 300 corporate and institutional clients that use its servers and services to provide e-mail to their employees and affiliates. Among those clients are other colleges and universities, such as the University of Illinois, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and the University of California, Davis.It is Mail2World’s technologies and servers in Orange County, Calif. that FAS IT has chosen for the @college service, according to Noah S. Selsby ’94-’95, senior client technology advisor for FAS IT.The search for an e-mail vendor began last...
Hamburgers. Fries. Soft drinks. After decades of Big Macs and Whoppers, that combo hardly seems to qualify for cult status. But as this entertaining corporate history demonstrates, doing something basic--but exceedingly well--has catapulted In-N-Out Burger to pop-culture stardom. The California-based chain, which owns 232 restaurants in the Western U.S., causes "burger jams" every time it opens a new location. Famous habitués, from Tom Cruise to Julia Child, have given the fare impassioned (unpaid) endorsements. In short, says Perman (a former TIME writer), "it is the envy of the industry and the darling...
Instructive, but we're still talking about burgers. What makes the Snyders' story worth reading is that it's as much cultural history as corporate. The company evolved in perfect sync with postwar Southern California, whose car culture and highway-fed suburbs blossomed as In-N-Out was building the first drive-throughs...
...Pacific Symphony in Southern California's Orange County won't be playing the sounds of silence anytime soon, thanks to the Farmers & Merchants Bank, one of many corporate benefactors. "The arts are a very rich part of the fabric of a region, and these organizations depend on companies like ours for support," explains Henry Walker, the family-owned institution's executive vice president, who sits on the symphony's board. "We feel we have a responsibility to them...
Other groups like the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, the San Diego Minutemen and various Save Our State groups have joined the chorus, sending out a barrage of e-mails to supporters and engaging in Web chatter about the perceived threats from Mexico. The push has gained some traction in Washington, while being rejected, thus far, by the Administration. "The public needs to be aware of the serious threat of swine flu, and we need to close our borders to Mexico immediately and completely until this is resolved," New York Democratic Congressman Eric Massa, a member of the Homeland Security...