Word: com
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...This isn't the first year TV has explored contentious families or divorce (see "Grace Under Fire"); sometimes, past producers would simply kill Mom, leaving a cute dad who could date (ABC's "Madigan Men" continues the widower-com tradition). But now the nontraditional family is practically mandatory, for reasons as much economic as social. After several years of being enthralled by big-city yuppie- coms, the networks realized, says NBC entertainment president Garth Ancier, that "the urban work setting was getting old." That meant a return to the domestic comedy - but with a difference. To stand out, says "Geena...
...toward getting the girl. He uses his wishes to change himself in ways to make himself more appealing to the girl, being defeated by Satan at every turn, until he learns that he doesn't have to change himself to find love. For all its computer animation and dot-com references, Bedazzled feels fairly musty; it's the sort that you might take your grandmother to, if it weren't for the penis-size jokes and Elizabeth Hurley all dolled up like a two-dollar stripper...
...despite the sea of uncertainty associated with startups, many students are sticking by them. Computer science concentrators and others say the excitement of working at a potentially lucrative dot-com is worth the risk...
...Yahoo. After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more...
...calling pasta "noodles," maybe this will convince you that times have changed. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, whose fourth edition appears this fall, complete with 10,000 entries not found in the third edition of eight years ago, the following sentence is now legitimate English: "The dot-com brainiac went postal, big-time, spewing baba gannouj all over the food court, when some butthead with no sense of netiquette stole his def domain name...