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Allston is hailed as a remedy to space problems—both for the acreage across the river and for the real estate that will be freed up in Harvard Square...
...stage, a government source says, Musharraf's political fixers tried to win over Bhutto by offering to drop corruption charges against her and her husband. Under the deal, the insider says, Zardari would be freed and sent into exile while Bhutto would be allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume politics. In the end, losing ppp candidate Shah Mahmood Quereshi has alleged publicly, Musharraf turned to simpler tactics: using threats and bribes to persuade a few of Bhutto's assemblymen to switch loyalties and vote for Jamali. --By Tim McGirk
...break some glass" to control spiraling costs. Within weeks CSFB laid off 300 bankers, or 14% of Ogunlesi's division. The survivors with guaranteed contracts were asked by Ogunlesi to accept pay cuts. He pushed the bankers out of limos and required them to hail taxis. And he freed 12 top revenue producers of daily management responsibilities so they could spend more time generating business...
...Having Rehman as Prime Minister would have been tough to explain to Washington, so Musharraf moved fast. His political fixers tried to rope in Bhutto by agreeing to drop corruption charges against her and her jailed husband, Asif Ali Zardari. Under the deal, insiders say, Zardari would have been freed and sent into exile, while Bhutto herself would have been allowed back into Pakistan after two years to resume her political career. In the end, it was easier, and politically cheaper, for Musharraf's party to convince several of Bhutto's assemblymen to switch loyalties...
...primitive methods of communication. But geeks have been unsuccessfully trying to develop and market a computerized writing pad for years. Raise your stylus if you remember the Apple Newton, which flopped in 1992. Engineers seem convinced that most of us prefer handwriting to typing and desperately desire to be freed from the shackles of keyboards. And now that computers are getting better at recognizing handwriting - the Newton was laughably inept in that regard - PC manufacturers are once again trying to sell us machines that work almost as well as a Bic and the back of a napkin...