Word: knighting
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...last year's CeBIT technology exhibition in Hanover, Germany, Juha Christensen spoke about Microsoft as if it were the Evil Empire. As a cofounder of London-based Symbian, he saw himself as a Jedi Knight, intent on European technology winning the day and becoming the Windows of the handset market. Several months later the 36-year-old Swede switched camps. Now, he is helping design the mobile strategy for Symbian's nemesis out of the U.S. as vice president of marketing and services for - you guessed it - Microsoft's mobility group...
...Knight's Tale...
...used to talk about the Goldilocks economy--not too hot and not too cold. Now it's like the Energizer-bunny economy. It just keeps going and going and going." --David Bowers, professor of banking and finance at Case Western Reserve University (Knight-Ridder Tribune Business Service, March...
...many weighty topics, including AIDS and racism have found expression through its pages. In fact, comics have so effectively closed the gap between popular entertainment and literature that many critically acclaimed stories, such as Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns have found their way onto college literature syllabuses...
HIRED. BOBBY KNIGHT, 60, preternaturally boorish and abusive basketball coach who was dismissed from Indiana University last September, after 29 years of service, for grabbing a student by the arm and violating a zero-tolerance behavior policy; as new head coach at Texas Tech, despite a faculty-written petition objecting to his appointment; in Lubbock, Texas...