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...hard to offer pairs of people jobs,"Muirhead says. `That's put a kink in the oldHarvard formula...
Audible has a proprietary formula for compressing sound into a digital form that can move from its website over phone lines into your modem and computer. It takes only eight minutes for a 56K modem to download an hour of audio. To do this, you'll need Audible's software, which comes with a nifty 3.5-oz. rechargeable MobilePlayer ($199) that holds two hours' worth of stuff. A newer model that holds 7 1/2 hrs. and costs $299 is supposed to ship next week...
Investing in brand-name consumer products, once the buy-and-hold, sleep-at-night formula for riches, has lost much of its appeal. Just compare the performance of Berkshire Hathaway, the repository of great American brands assembled by legendary investor Warren Buffett, with that of Bill Gates' Microsoft--or Dell or Intel. Is Coke no longer "it"? Have brands like American Express and Disney lost their luster? What has caused Buffett-style consumer brands to lag behind the big tech stocks...
...display more emotion and authenticity in their affection for the sarcastic patriarch. In their separate scenes with Newman, both suddenly become more lively, even almost interesting. Despite the welcome antics of a cynical curmudgeon, the love scenes between Costner and Wright become a mere formality in the romance formula...
...grass. The dirt. The roar of the crowd. The pigskin sailing through the air from one sweaty hand to an even sweatier crook of the arm. The sweet smell of victory. The bitter agony of defeat. Yep, these cliches are the staple elements of a football formula flick...