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...allowed my bastard contacts to jerk me around until early March, when I decided to abandon the connection game and secure employment based on my own merits. Of course this new strategy presupposed that I had merits, but I neglected to identify this flaw in my approach until it was far too late. Remembering that my goal from the outset was to sell out, I asked myself, "What company best represents the ideals of exploitation and greed?" The answer was obvious: Microsoft...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Searching for a Pimp | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

Since that series, Harvard has posted a 6-2 record, but, perhaps more importantly, has taken great strides toward cleaning up its infield defense, the chief flaw in its fundamentals play this year...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baseball Rained Out; Looks to Clinch Rolfe | 4/24/1998 | See Source »

However, Negin noted a trend of certain ethnic groups in Cabot moving off-campus as "a flaw of the House Committee and randomization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Committee Leaders Gear-up Post-Randomization | 4/10/1998 | See Source »

...course, nothing's perfect in this world. Opera's only real flaw is its lack of support for Java applets (although it renders in-line JavaScript just fine.) In reality, this is a small price to pay, since most stand-alone Java applets on the Web today are nothing more than stock or score tickers or flashy design. In addition, many specialized plug-ins are incompatible with the program, although the majors-RealAudio, Quicktime, etc.-work just fine...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Opera is the Best Browser Around | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...good sense of the purposes and risks of the missions. That's not surprising, since scientific information is so hard to convey in a drama. The result, though, is that we don't appreciate the challenges NASA faced or the ingenious ways it met them. In view of this flaw and the failure to bring individuals really alive, one wonders if a documentary approach would have been preferable to a dramatization. It would have provided more clarity and very possibly more emotion. As Ken Burns has demonstrated, a documentary need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: We Do Not Have Lift-Off | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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