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...Lose a Guy in 10 Days for 100 rupees (about $1.75) even while it's playing in first-run theaters in the U.S. Karachi boasts five optical-disc factories, just one of which churns out 40 million pirated discs a year. If you think American teenagers are guiltless, file-swapping punks, try talking to a Karachi shopkeeper. "We make copy of everything!" says Mohammed Haris. "Even George Bush cannot dare to come over here. We will keep the original and send his copy back home...
...scary cautionary tale--but at this point, hypothetical horror stories are almost beside the point. The people have spoken, and they say they want a revolution. File sharing isn't going to save us from corporate entertainment the way the Beatles saved Pepperland from the Blue Meanies, but if it allows more people to listen to more music in more ways than they ever have before, can it be all bad? And does good or bad even matter? Technology has a way of sweeping aside questions of what is right or wrong and replacing them with the reality of what...
...buttons. Successful motivation requires careful thinking about how to encourage accomplishments that make a difference to the bottom line and how to tailor incentives to individual employees. After a manager in the Tampa, Fla., office of Aetna, for example, started pizza parties tied to quality measures for rank-and-file workers, backlogs fell sharply. (Katzenbach does note that pay is the best motivator for upper-level executives, whose potential earnings from bonuses and stock options are enormous...
That’s just what his son did. Later, after Harvard’s celebration had moved to the locker room and Dartmouth’s players started to file onto their bus, Lentz lingered outside Dillon Field House, the duffel bag slung over his shoulder the only baggage weighing on him. Only when pressed did he confess to some satisfaction over getting the better of Dartmouth...
...State Senator Jarrett T. Barrios ’90-’91, whose district includes the parcel, said yesterday that he planned to file legislation to block the MBTA from taking the 47 acres...