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...state of the job market. Anyone going through recruiting has probably noticed that hiring is a little slower this year than in years past, and one of course can't help notice that many companies from all different industries and regions are laying off employees. The thing is, a dot-com firing 200 employees, an auto maker closing one plant and a newly-merged company like AOL Time Warner eliminating 1,200 redundant accountants and secretaries does not add up to a job market like that of the early '90s, when millions of jobs were lost every year...
What we have here is a case of the foolish criticizing the blind. The Internet was never going to make the business cycle go away, and anyone who believed so deserved to lose all the money they had plowed into shares of hopeless dot-coms. And now that we are in an ever-so-slight downturn in the business cycle, those who say the Internet was all hype have obviously never used eBay or experienced one of the myriad forms of collaboration and communication that weren't possible even five years ago without the Internet...
...TOSHIKI KAIFU Aug. 10, 1989?Nov. 4, 1991 Lowest approval rating: 39% Memorable achievement: Introduced the polka dot necktie to a Diet that previously preferred monotone cravats...
...common way to validate an audience, is to reinforce its beliefs of itself. The good way, the "Breakfast After Noon" way, allows you to see your world or, even better, yourself, depicted in a work of art. Some of you, like the ex-dot-commers out there, sitting in your bathrobe reading this, will know just what Rob feels like. The rest of you can learn...
...good one, in theory. But in reality, the ability to get into a House in the dead of night (or, on the other hand, the inability to do so) has not once been linked to the outcome of an on-campus crime situation. Blue-light phones, accessible to all, dot the campus, providing a potentially nervous student a quick hotline to safety no matter the green light-red light status of the nearest House...