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...Practically every chipmaker, computer maker and network outfit you could name - except Microsoft, which hit a 52-week low on some foul earnings rumors - was movin' on up after Gateway, PMC Sierra, and Juniper Networks all posted reassuring earnings in a day full of happy news. (Even Abby Joseph Cohen, Wall Street's kindly aunt, pitched in with a declaration that the S&P 500 is 15 percent undervalued...
Live events were similarly jollied up. With baseball, a sport with which locals are not overly familiar, Australia showed that it's possible to outdo even Triple-A ballparks with cartoonish bells and whistles. At every foul ball, loudspeakers blasted the sound of smashing glass--even if they were grounders. One can't help feeling there's a lesson here for the steeplechase or dressage. Those top hats are just begging for a visual...
Ralph Nader knows when to cry foul. We would do well to heed his latest alarm, sounded Sunday at the FleetCenter and last night at Harvard Law School, about the growing confluence of money and power in our democratic politics...
...that used to come to mind was--why? Immediately following this mental imperative are images of gunky toilets, fungus, overflowing trash bins. And, if that failed to repel, there is always the idea of unknowingly entering the room of that cute guy in your Justice section with you wearing foul-smelling rubber gloves and a splattered apron and then finding out that his shower sends off one of the world's absolute worst odors. I must admit that I shared the sentiments of my roommate, who wondered, "There are other jobs. Why do people do that...
Smith says she does not blame administrators for the foul-ups but believes her library could have been ready earlier with better organization...