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...visits to a number of Southern homes. The gentry still have front porches (some skirting three sides of the house), still sit out there and gas, keeping alive the oral-communal tradition. We learn that the porch is making a comeback, gradually replacing its humbler rival the deck, which the traditionalist Dolan refers to as ?the platform shoe or leisure suit of American architecture...
Gibson made the lead stand with three key saves on Harvard freshman Kevin Du—a kick save on a 3-on-2 chance with six minutes left, a sprawling deck stop with 3:15 left, and another 2-on-1 bid 15 seconds later...
...with me, there was no one who ever doubted. I've had major ships under my command in a tactical situation. I was able to call in air strikes, rockets, ships, troops, helicopters. I've exercised major responsibility, life and death. I've exercised responsibility as officer of the deck of a ship carrying nuclear weapons. I've exercised responsibility as a Lieutenant Governor, when the Governor was out of state and I've been the acting Governor. Of a bigger state. The question is, How did you do when you did those things? I find the only difference...
...have to pay hundreds of dollars to get digital video on the go. The Zvue from Handheld Entertainment is just a little larger than a deck of cards and lets you play both its own 20-minute videos and your own MP3s and videos, which you can copy onto blank memory cards that slide into the unit. Targeted at the video-game crowd, ages 8 to 25, the Zvue has a bright color screen and 20 different videos--mostly hip-hop performances, street car races and extreme sports like snowboarding. With videos priced at $15 for a 20minute clip, however...
...every team has Barry Bonds, so don't wait for the upper-deck smash. That's the message of Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business, the latest from Ram Charan, a noted consultant and co-author of the best-selling Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Charan argues that executives should look for "singles and doubles" to steadily enhance revenues, such as Dell's efforts to improve inventory turns, instead of industry-altering ideas. The tool for smacking a line drive is the "growth budget," which allocates specific resources to achieve targeted gains. "This discipline can change the whole...