Word: janus
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WORLD BEATERS A17 Chiquita's top banana; Cadbury's CFO; Janus' global maven; GM's man in Africa...
Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiss have already shaken the music industry to its roots with their Kazaa file-sharing software. Now Zennstrom, 37, and Friiss, 27, have turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system...
...When I was there, people stuck their noses up at the Quad,” says Andronike Janus, who was assistant to the president of Radcliffe for special projects fro 1970 to 1980. “The Quad was known as a no-man’s land. It was isolated from the Square and from all the Harvard programs.” The first shuttles to the Quad came only when men had established a presence at the Quad, in the early 1970s...
...opened to men for the first time in 1969, on a volunteer basis. Women, in turn, were allowed to transfer to the river houses. “The merger of the dorms happened in a certain environment, when everything that happened at Radcliffe was second-rate,” Janus says. “Nobody really knew what they were doing up there...
...anything but a normal sampling of Harvard men. “The boys were unusual,” Munnell recalls. “They were not boys looking to meet cute girls. They were different—no jocks, no preppies from the [final] clubs.” Adds Janus, “The kids who moved to the Quad weren’t into drinking and drugs, but fruit and chocolate.” “I remember being struck by that.” According to Eric S. Roberts ’73, a former Currier House...