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...Deviant behavior is nothing new,” says Assistant Professor of Sociology Jason Kaufman ’93. “As individuals, we all crave opportunities for fantasy play, identity transformation and sexual release. The Internet is simply the newest, cheapest, most convenient venue...
...profits--up from the normal 20%--may not be so cocky going forward, notes Steven Galante, president of Asset Alternatives, a Wellesley, Mass., research firm. And for those who put their money in private equity, the corporate books allow the kind of transparency that stock-market investors crave post-Enron. To secure seed money for start-ups and spin-offs, companies grant private managers broad disclosure...
PALM TREAT The new Palm i705 ($450) is a step closer to the easy, flexible wireless e-mail access all handheld users crave. Unlike the Palm VII, the i705 checks your e-mail constantly instead of just when you ask, and it alerts you when it arrives. If the i705 had a mini-keyboard like its rival, the RIM BlackBerry, we'd give it a high five...
...earlier timetable. Under the early action system available at Harvard, for instance, students may apply early to as many schools as they choose, without having to declare a single first-choice college. The system gives students the early answers—and the security—they crave, while leaving them the freedom to compare financial aid packages and to defer any final decisions until the spring...
...finds an audience, Louis-Dreyfus and Hall have made some unusual demands. They have asked to have their show be a midseason replacement. They have also offered to sell the network only 15 episodes a year instead of pushing for the full 22-show order most series crave. And they have requested, perhaps unsuccessfully (the final scheduling is still pending), that NBC put them on lower-key Tuesday night instead of in the middle of Thursday's "Must See TV" lineup, a spot so warm and cozy that even Inside Schwartz got good ratings there. These are things that happen...