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...factory in Malibu. This type of competitive advantage is rare and extraordinarily valuable. It is completely bewildering, therefore, that networks are unable to translate it into profits, as explained in a recent article in The Economist. These are the types of businesses, after all, that ought to flourish in the economy of the future...

Author: By Kiran R. Pendri | Title: Futurology 4 | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...HARVARD 5, PENN 2Following the previous day’s loss to Princeton, the Crimson looked to salvage some pride on Saturday in Philadelphia, against a Penn team with only one win in its Ivy League season. With a senior class looking to finish with a flourish, Harvard recorded a morale-boosting win.“The guys responded really well against Penn,” Fish said.An overpowering sweep of the doubles set the tone for the Crimson. At No. 2, the partnership of sophomore Aba Omodele-Lucien and senior Sasha Ermakov won resoundingly against Justen Roth and Phil...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ivy Title Chances Dashed in Weekend Split | 4/12/2009 | See Source »

...recited his favorite line from John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words had a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up Kennedy's challenge. "It's my responsibility to my country to teach people about the elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard from Rangoon | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...line from the U.S. presidential inaugural address by John F. Kennedy: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words took on a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up the challenge of the other half of Kennedy's equation. "It's my responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...smell of me or how my stomach jiggles / but you don’t love me / that’s alright.” Most of the Oldham repertoire features unpredictable chord changes, but here the carnival atmosphere melts into stale poppy hooks, adorned by an occasional Nashville flourish pulled from the shelf...

Author: By Jessica A. Sequeira, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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