Word: chutzpah
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...With this backdrop, the story practically writes itself: given their combined smarts, distribution and chutzpah, Sun and 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...
...band, which had gone through a variety of names, including the Hype, was better with chutzpah than with chords. "You see," says Mullen, "we couldn't play. We were very, very, very bad." In the first hot flush of punk, this did not greatly matter, and after seeing them in 1978, McGuinness, who had done mostly film-production work up until that moment, agreed to become their manager. "It looked to me like they would be a great rock band," he says now, adding, "I've only had to be right once...
...director of the University of California Press, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday that she “disagree[s] completely” with Dershowitz’s charge that the press is “getting down in the gutter” by publishing “Beyond Chutzpah...
...reaction to the article in The Nation, Dershowitz offered an explanation that he hoped would clarify his intentions concerning “Beyond Chutzpah,” which he said he believes were distorted in the article...
According to Dershowitz, Finkelstein wrote an e-mail to Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan explaining that he would criticize Dershowitz in “Beyond Chutzpah.” But Finkelstein went further in the e-mail, reportedly writing that Dershowitz “has come to the point where he’s had so many people write so many of his books [that] it’s sort of like a Hallmark line for Nazis….They churn them out so fast that he has now reached a point where he doesn’t even...