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The strategy nearly failed when software problems created delivery delays. Panic raced through IBM's top echelons as rivals closed in. A desperate Watson ousted his younger brother Dick as head of engineering and manufacturing for the System/360 project, derailing the younger man's career and filling Watson with shame...
There is a midrash (a legend) that explains, "the further you are from Sinai [the moment of revelation], the more you are diminished." Bak varies the notion of family lineage in From Generation to Generation through a series. An elder from the village of Vilna, gazes upon versions of himself...
Although he's made some fine pop albums in the past, notably Scarecrow (1985) and The Lonesome Jubilee (1987), Mellencamp says he's been moving beyond arena-filling pop. "Scarecrow is a square record," he says. "There's no countermelodies. Just verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus. Square songs...
What started in the stadiums is creeping into your cash machine. Four Chicago banks are experimenting with filling those few seconds while a transaction is being processed--seconds, you might argue, that don't strictly need filling--with onscreen commercial loops. Will they influence your purchasing decisions? Perhaps. But how...
Just a few Thanksgivings from now, your wall-size, wafer-thin television will be dashing off an e-mail to your oven. With the unavoidable Detroit Lions game just going into overtime and the gang filling up on corn chips, the urgent message is: Keep the turkey from drying out...