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Tercentenary Theater has echoed with the voices of students performing memorial readings three times in just the past month. The names of Holocaust victims were read to remind students of the atrocity and to illustrate that even when named steadily from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., only a mere fraction of the victims could be memorialized. Earth Day followed soon afterwards, and lists of endangered species were repeated into a microphone. And last week's Take Back the Night event sponsored another public reading to memorialize the victims of domestic violence...
...medium is that it's always been plagued by too much content, rather than too little. A now-infamous report issued last summer by the NEC Research Institute announced that for all their inflated stock prices, the major search engines were only covering at best a fraction of the Web. Forrester Research estimates the size of the web at 500-600 million pages; AltaVista, which claims to index the most pages of any major search engine, only covers 150 million. The best bet, the report stated, may be search engines like Metacrawler, which simply aggregate search results from other engines.MORE...
...Harvard has outsourced a lot of security for a fraction of the pay, and the union guards that are left have been working without a contract for a three years," says Aaron D. Bartley, a first-year law student involved in the Campaign. "It exemplifies the University's desire to save a few nickels and dimes...
...best kind of deal is one that works out well for both sides," says Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom. AutoNation chairman H. Wayne Huizenga says, "You never know when you'll find yourself sitting across the negotiating table from that person again." In market terms: Forget the last fraction. Pigs get slaughtered...
What drove Des McAnuff into allowing such a stunning, moving and magnificently consuming musical to be dissected into a mere fraction of what it once...