Word: contently
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...rational self-interest is the moral ideal whose political corollary is a free society in which the individual rights are inviolate. In short, the individual lectures as well as the series as a whole were intended to present to the Harvard community some idea of the scope and content of Ayn Rand's historic intellectual achievements...
...growing challenge from Internet- service providers like Netcom, AT&T and even Microsoft Network finally prompted AOL to lower its monthly fee to match the going rate of $19.95 for unlimited Internet access. For that amount, users would get not only the Internet but also AOL's own proprietary content, including games, scores of newspaper and magazine sites and special features like the popular Motley Fool investment forum...
Stim was a bold bid by Prodigy, the dowdy online service started by IBM and Sears, to break into the hot, youth-oriented Web-content business. Some $2 million was budgeted for the first year, paying the salaries of a dozen staff members. But when the first million was gone, with readership scant and no real revenue in sight, Prodigy decided to cut its losses. The company has given Halpin Stim's name and the computer that housed it. A neighboring firm has donated some office space. But with nothing to pay its contributors, Halpin & Co. must resurrect the 'zine...
...money this year or even, maybe, the next few. This is an infant medium; it needs time to find its way. A print magazine can take five years and many millions of dollars before turning a profit, and that's in a proven market where people actually pay for content. We need courage if we're going to create something wonderful. The New Yorker nearly died in 1925, the year it was born. Indeed, it did die for one day, before its patron reconsidered. The magazine at the time had a paltry circulation of 2,700--perhaps, as James Thurber...
...despite his evident sincerity about his work, Lucas strikes an oddly dispassionate tone when asked about the content of his movies, or why he thinks Star Wars endures so splendidly. "The only thing I can think of is the fact that it's based on ideas and themes that have been around for two to three thousand years when you get down to it." Storytelling does not, apparently, come easy to Lucas; he says it has been more of a learned, or willed, talent (critics might say that shows in Star Wars' comic-book derivativeness). After an initial burst...