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...Simplicity Day," it was also part of a longer-term work in progress. Over the past few years, Philips has struggled to assemble the right collection of businesses and the structure with which to run them. The company has shed unwieldy chunks of an overweight, underperforming portfolio. In a classic make-or-buy decision, Philips dumped its chips and electronics-components units--too capital intensive and too cyclical. Now it is narrowing its focus to consumer technology, lighting and health care. "There's a lot to be done," Van Deursen told his Philips staff in Eindhoven. "Are you ready...
...Harvard men’s volleyball team met with mixed success at this weekend’s Golden Dome Classic in Newark, N.J.After sweeping Rutgers-Newark (4-8, 2-2 Hay) for the second time this season, 3-0, the Crimson (4-3, 3-1 Hay) couldn’t overcome non-conference opponent Mount Olive (8-4) in the teams’ first meeting, surrendering a hard-fought loss, 1-3.Despite the loss to the Trojans, Harvard finds itself in a solid position for an EIVA playoff run. The Crimson’s victory against Rutgers puts Harvard in second...
...carte basis, waste and over-consumption would dramatically decrease. Under the current system, the amount that people pay for food is unrelated to how much they eat, or even how many meals they attend. The cost of each meal is effectively borne by the entire student body, creating a classic tragedy of the commons. Since diners do not suffer the cost of the food they eat, they inevitably eat more than the optimal amount. What’s more, they have no incentive to take only as much food as they can eat, so they produce more waste than they...
...commentary on human nature in the age of new web technology. Although shot entirely with handheld cameras, “Diary” is presented as a polished film-within-a-film. Romero forgoes the hyperrealist tone of recent horror film “Cloverfield” and cult classic “The Blair Witch Project” by editing together shots from multiple sources such as cell phones and security cameras. Those who walked out of “Cloverfield” with a migraine have little to worry about here; the “shaky cam?...
...received just that accolade from just that person.Woodward’s 1979 book “The Brethren” gave America its first behind-the-bench look at the Supreme Court, and “The Nine” seems poised to join it as a courtroom classic. Toobin’s book has been on the New York Times best seller list for 17 weeks, and at the end of 2007, everyone from the Times to Time had “The Nine” as one of its ten best books of the year.And guess where...