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...genetic makeup--in effect, creating the perfect child. Hawke plays Vincent Freeman (the name's assuredly not the result of random chance), a "natural" (or an "In-Valid," as they're called, to distinguish from the "Valid" genetic elite) confronting a society where his kind are relegated to grunt work...
...slim-green exterminator's truck he drives around is enough to provoke a chuckle every time it appears. But after a while the gag gets old: one wishes the scriptwriters had given d'Onofrio something else to do besides walk like Frankenstein with a case of cerebral palsy and grunt threats in guttural tones. And the Bug, once it emerges, is a comic book nighmare. It's not any less ridiculous just because it's camp...
...months the firm has stood down a Kamikaze charge from its main challenger in the database business, Informix. The Menlo Park, Calif., company blindsided Oracle with a series of hip-sounding, well-marketed database programs it claimed were faster and better at scrounging through terrabytes of data--the grunt work where databases make their fortunes. Oracle stock took a quick dip, but Ellison's slash-and-burn sales force and espresso-fueled programmers quickly unplugged the challenge. "Informix did tons of things wrong," says Ellison. "They started writing checks instead of software." Last week Informix announced a $140 million quarterly...
James A. Himes '88, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, said that although business jobs may entail some grunt work, they also come with enormous perks...
...part of the Army under the most scrutiny for sexual harassment," says military sociologist Charles Moskos. "When the sergeant major of the Army, the top NCO, is accused, it symbolically represents the entire NCO corps," the band of veteran soldiers who bridge the gap between officer and grunt...