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Smith cites the example of Brooke M. Ellison '00, who is a quadriplegic...
...Sometimes, you see issues and situations in such a totally different light from your first position that you wonder why you ever thought otherwise before. That happened to me over the course of this year with the Barker Center, Harvard's new humanities building, where the scholars of Ralph Ellison, Emily Dickinson, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare, Leo Tolstoy, Feodor Dostoevski, and Ralph Waldo Emerson now reside...
...management ranks have been thinning at an alarming rate. Only Fred Anderson, the chief financial officer, is roaming the halls as Jobs negotiates with Microsoft by phone and works on a quickie video of the new Apple board he virtually handpicked--naturally to include his buddy, Oracle chief Lawrence Ellison, who considered his own takeover bid of Apple this spring. "We caught Larry Ellison in the San Jose airport last Friday before he left for vacation," says Jobs, chuckling, as he watches raw video footage in the boardroom. "Apple is the only life-style brand in the computer industry," Ellison...
What now? Microsoft's bear hug buys Apple a few months' breathing room, and replacing most of the company's reviled board of directors with bold-faced techies like Oracle's Larry Ellison and Intuit's Bill Campbell was a necessary--and possibly helpful--housecleaning. Now Jobs must recruit some dynamic marketing-minded luminary as CEO to get the company moving forward...
...LARRY ELLISON Oracle boss gets on Apple's board without taking a bite. (But he's in the tent with his archrival, Gates...