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...made the pilgrimage from Boston to the holy grail of mindless TV addiction with the hope of becoming VJs for an unspecified project. Both of us had gotten vague e-mails about MTVU, a spinoff MTV channel theoretically geared specifically toward college students. Instead of broadcasting boy bands and bubble gum pop, MTVU would aim at a more sophisticated music audience. This is not to say that MTVU will entirely forgo programming that plays on stupidity—in fact, movies like Tom Green’s Road Trip are typical of the humor that MTVU will likely display. MTVU...
...Blue, of course, isn't the only one going after this industry Holy Grail. It will have to do battle with hardwaremakers like Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems; consultants like Accenture; outsourcers like EDS; and software players like BEA, Oracle and Microsoft. Its competitors snort that IBM simply glues together a hodgepodge of inferior systems--all too often pushing its own--and then charges big bucks to have its consultants keep them from breaking down, an approach they predict will soon lose its appeal. IBM's strategy "is an acknowledgment that the very technology it has been peddling all these...
Life on Mars - it is an earthling's fantasy as old as Eldorado or the Holy Grail. And yet mankind may be on the brink of actually proving whether there is, or ever has been, life on the Red Planet. This spring three spacecraft are scheduled to take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space...
...more miles when necessary. The holy grail of frequent-flyer rewards is the free ticket for accumulating 25,000 points, or miles. But it's tough to book one with only two to 20 seats on each flight available for rewards. By contrast, for travelers willing to use 40,000 miles, all seats on each flight are available. Many people balk at using so many miles, but it's not a bad deal. Consider this: the accepted value of a single airline mile is about 2 (figured on the basis of a 25,000 miles per $500 coach ticket...
...tenured professorship at Harvard is the holy grail of American higher education. Aspiring academics spend years publishing or perishing, always trying to distinguish themselves enough to be considered “the leading scholar in the field” and therefore qualify for an appointment to the University’s tenured Faculty. And like the search for the grail, the path to tenure at Harvard is often a mystery. Partly as a result of this inscrutable tenure process, there have been several controversial tenure cases over the last few years where faculty have said they were treated unfairly...