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...Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry isn't worried about the odd billion spent on new facilities or the free lunches for which the company is famous. His concern is Bill Gates & Co. "Google knows that their biggest threat is now Microsoft," says Terry. Having dragged its feet on search while Google built an empire, Microsoft has been spending heavily on its Web index and recently partnered with Facebook to provide ads for the popular social site. "To believe that Yahoo!, Ask and Microsoft are not going to improve and take share from Google is naive," says Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn...
...business are held by people under 40, who were too young to have been tainted by the Soviet past. They are also the ones building the new homes that are shooting up on the outskirts of Tallinn, and refurbishing their apartments. Much of this is being done on credit; banks report that their lending is up by a startling 50% this year, leading some to worry about a bubble economy, especially in real estate. "Some people think they have discovered the never-ending hockey stick," frets Erkki Raasuke, 35, chief executive of Hansabank, the country's biggest bank. Estonia...
...which the text is produced?” to quote the Courses of Instruction. Yet the number of cross-listed departmental courses remains agonizingly low. We are stumped as to why English 151, “The 19th Century Novel,” is somehow worthy of Core credit, while English 141, “The 18th Century Novel,” is not. Bizarrely, the Core continues to insist that its presentation of various “approaches to learning” justifies its distinctness from the rest of the curriculum. Perhaps students could be expected...
According to a grumbling few, Marisha Pessl’s tangled debut novel “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” does not deserve to be published. Certain critics and blogsters credit the unusually pretty author—and her jacket photo—for capturing publisher Viking’s attention...
...more than 20 hours over the course of the next four months. Nasar’s story appeared in the magazine in late August. In it, she and her co-writer, David Gruber, intimated that Yau was a slippery opportunist, not-so-vaguely accusing him of conspiring to seize credit for solving the Conjecture even though a reclusive Russian named Grigory Perelman had done it first. According to the article, Perelman had posted a solution to the Poincare online, without even bothering to formally publish in an accredited math journal. The luminaries of the profession, according to the piece...