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...merger this size usually comes wrapped in explanations about cash flow and synergy and the global marketplace. But for all the theories, even deals this logical depend for their fuel on the dreams and grudges and high octane of a very few, very powerful men who are too rich to be doing it for the money and too vain to admit to motives more complex than the desire to serve their shareholders. And so last week, following the second biggest takeover of all time, there was a story to tell about the ever more ferocious fight among media giants trying...
...Internet company as well as the Microsoft Network. "There is a growing distrust of one-way, packaged mass media," says Mark Stahlman of New Media Associates. This may mean that as people become more adept at navigating the World Wide Web, for instance, they will be less likely to depend on a single source of fun and news...
...said, "a book must be an ax which we can take against the frozen sea within us." Where the force of identity politics has failed heretofore, perhaps the vertiginous decentering occasioned by reflections on the metaphysics of identity can lead to the unforced consensus upon which all social movements depend...
Ultimately, many Burmese hope for a gradual return to civilian rule, with the military taking a backroom power- and money-sharing role, as it does in Thailand and Indonesia. But everything depends on Suu Kyi. Now she is free to walk from the house that has been her prison for six years. But is she free to travel? To take up her democratic campaign -- or, indeed, the mandate given to her by the Burmese people in 1990? That's almost certainly not the kind of freedom handed to her by the 21-general junta last week. The only thing that...
...right away at least. It's not in the speeches from President Rudenstine and Dean Lewis, not in the Handbook for Students, not anywhere in the fliers and leaflets and publications that they sent you over the summer. In fact, what Harvard will come to mean to you will depend on who you are and what you do here for the next four years...