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During the past two years, even Sears has started selling black washers and dryers, and black refrigerators. "The sophisticated black look is a departure Mikasa crystal for Sears," admits Robert Hillman, an industrial engineer with the company. "We had to take the store buyers by the hand around to high-tech stores in Chicago." General Electric is sluicing black into the mainstream too. "We've greatly increased black items in the last year," says Walter Bennett, until recently an appliance marketer for GE. "This year we've made black available down into our very bottom lines...
Beyond Power is part ideological tract, part history of the world according to feminism. In a brisk romp through the ages, readers learn that an 18th century woman playwright, Olympe de Gouges, came down firmly on both sides of the French Revolution, and that Crystal Eastman founded the American Civil Liberties Union but got no credit for it. No male abuse of females goes unchronicled, and to give the author her due, the long litany, from foot binding to burning for witchcraft, has a sobering effect. French, an academic who has taught English at Harvard, Hofstra and Holy Cross, seems...
Ever since, track promoters have sought a rematch, and when it was finally set for London's Crystal Palace last week (with each woman receiving a reported $25,000 to appear), the entire schedule of the Peugeot-Talbot Games was rejiggered so that the confrontation could be seen live on American TV. For those who wondered how the Olympic race would have turned out, last Saturday's race seemed for its first half an eerie replay. Slaney (Decker married British Discus Thrower Richard Slaney on New Year's Day) took the lead from the start, as she likes...
...Otellini, who will become CEO in May, that reality has the makings of a crisis. And in fact the Pentium 4 issue was only one of a whole host of mishaps and missteps that Intel found itself confronted with in 2004. The LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip for high-definition TVs, a pet project of Otellini's that (as president and COO) he had announced with much fanfare in January 2004, was abandoned in November when the cost of production became prohibitive. Waggish engineers made a disco ball out of defunct LCOS chips for Intel's holiday party...
...demonstration's message was both confusing and crystal clear. Was it pro-Syria? The demonstrators carried photos of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Was it pro-democracy? The demonstrators carried Lebanese flags. Hizballah was cleverly announcing its ability to either thwart or support the "liberation" of the country, depending on the hand it was dealt in the negotiations for a new government. It was also announcing that it was, by far, the largest and best-organized political force in Lebanon...