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...five to seven years instead of two to three? Can somebody say B2B shakeout all over again? Tom Nolle, president of the consulting firm CIMI, warns that there is too much bandwidth capacity already and that once the current wave of network building is finished, there could be bandwidth glut at the backbone level...
...indicator of economic well-being is the availability of capital. Do you feel there's a glut of money available now for entrepreneurs...
...youth-zeitgeist factor didn't work for any of these shows," says J.J. Abrams, creator of Felicity (Wednesday, 9 p.m. E.T.). "There was definitely a glut." The college comedy-drama, much praised in its debut year, has struggled as a sophomore, prompting the risible and vaguely sexist criticism that the ratings dived because star Keri Russell cut her flowing, curly hair. (Would that Billy's dye job had done the same for Ally McBeal.) "It's something that a girl of that age, having gone through serious changes, would realistically do," says Abrams, who blames the drop...
...along with this glut of offense, the Big Red shut down the Crimson offense entirely in the third quarter. Harvard could manage only three shots in the third, which jarred with Cornell's 13 shots in the period...
...This glut of advertising is not necessarily bad: Advertising can be quite beautiful, and is often much more innovative and funnier than the programs between which it is sandwiched. Ads for the Super Bowl and now for the Oscars have become premier events unto themselves and at times overshadow the presumed draw of football or movie stars. In 10 years, the top awards show is likely to be the Clio, the award for achievements in advertising. In some ways the Oscars are already as self-serving: We do buy the idea that movie people, renamed the "Academy," can vote...