Word: excerpted
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Many of "Bill Gates' New Rules" [BOOK EXCERPT, March 22] for accelerating and improving business transactions are very appropriate and useful. However, Rule No. 5, "Convert every paper process to a digital process," is worrisome. Gates complains of "administrative processes that were too complicated and time-intensive." He could even swing some environmentalists to this rule because it would reduce paper consumption. However, the temptation to cut down on waste and the desire to transact efficiently cannot supersede the importance of having cold, hard documentation of highly valuable transactions. Let's not go too far in risking our rights...
...relationship with Henry Kissinger is not as tantalizing as America's with Monica, but it's worth noting in light of this week's excerpt of his new book. He called me a few months ago, which was a bit unexpected since he'd quit speaking to me in 1992, when I wrote a biography of him. "Well, Walter," he said, in his distinctive rumble, "even the Thirty Years' War had to end at some point." (He did allow that his loyal wife was more partial to the Hundred Years...
...Restaurant, Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, Jan. 25, 1999. Bret Easton Ellis and his escort sit in the 52nd-story lounge looking out on a stunning panoramic view of the nighttime Boston skyline. Jonathan Paul, Shara Kay, and Crimson photographer John Coyle join them. Below is an excerpt from the conversation that followed...
...combined strategy to put more pizzazz in Diet Coke's image and more fizz in book sales, the Coca-Cola company launched an unusual cross-marketing campaign with six publishing houses Monday: Buy a 12- or 24-pack of Diet Coke or caffeine-free Diet Coke and get an excerpt from one of six new books inside...
...band of shirtless male ballet dancers interrupted the second largest class at Harvard yesterday by performing an excerpt from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in what was most likely a final club initiation prank...