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Faster, cheaper and better constitute the holy grail of technology solutions, but most attempts achieve only the first two aims. Technology can simplify and facilitate a transaction, but good customer service is required to deal with the unique and personal aspects of it. Bob Livingston, LOS ANGELES...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Please Help Yourself | 4/2/2008 | See Source »

...Faster, cheaper and better constitute the holy grail of technology solutions, but most attempts achieve only the first two aims. Technology can simplify and facilitate a transaction, but good customer service is required to deal with the unique and personal aspects of it. Bob Livingston, Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/27/2008 | See Source »

...nice to have supportive parents during those moments you feel like you’re life is over.By the time round three came around, I had just about given up hope. I left school early to go all the way up to Carmel, N.Y— The Holy Grail of New York State DMVs.“ANYONE can pass in Carmel,” my brother told me. Great. Now I was doomed to fail.I watched as a tiny disheleved woman with crazy curly hair struggled to climb into my mom’s SUV. (I had convinced...

Author: By Alyssa N. Wolff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Driving Miss Crazy | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...face (where “Mr. Bush tear down this wall” stood spray-painted only a few panels over from “Zionism = Nazism”) underlined the story I heard from the dean: local students, aspiring to education’s holy grail, were soon discouraged by the unfamiliar exams demanded by the application process—another high wall that blocked their escape route in education.I couldn’t help but feel sorry for these students, as it seems unlikely that Kaplan will open a branch in Ramallah anytime soon. While I expect that...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: If It Bleeds, It Leads | 3/17/2008 | See Source »

...Harvards, the Stanfords—they’re still going to be the ones people want to go to and envision as the end-all-to-be-all,” Conroy said. “Many students think that if you go to a Holy Grail school, you pave your way to a fabulous life. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it doesn?...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Applicant Pool May Shrink | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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