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Will Farecast soon land in the lap of Expedia or Travelocity? Etzioni and CEO Hugh Crean insist that they are building an independent company that can earn profits on ads (for hotel rooms, for instance) and by taking a cut of tickets bought through links on the site. But Etzioni admits the chances Farecast will end up in the hands of a Web giant within five years or so are about 50-50. CNBC pundit Jim Cramer scoffs at start-ups like Farecast as sizzle without substance. "It's like, so what? I could do that company," he says. Among...
...Irish immigrant who worked as a servant for priests. In her later years she lived with us, and we would go to Mass together. She was barely literate, the seventh of 13 children. And she could rattle off the Hail Mary with the speed and subtlety of a NASCAR lap. There were times when she embarrassed me--with her broad Irish brogue and reflexive deference to clerical authority. Couldn't she genuflect a little less deeply and pray a little less loudly? And then, as I winced at her volume in my quiet church, I saw that she was utterly...
...Formula One (F1) racing, it generally means there is some kind of hazard or debris on the track. Drivers must temporarily slow down, and F1 crews typically use the opportunity to bring their cars in for a pit stop. But when a safety car rolled out in the 25th lap of last year's Monaco[an error occurred while processing this directive] Grand Prix, Team McLaren Mercedes made the counterintuitive decision to keep driver Kimi Raikkonen on the track. The ploy worked; Raikkonen won. But the decision wasn't made at trackside. It came from team leaders based...
...scene was similar on Monday when I sat in the press gallery and watched Saddam arrive in his natty dark suit with a silk pocket square, his improbably black hair and greying beard neatly trimmed. He sat quietly with his Koran in his lap for the first two hours, as his newly appointed lawyers offered an ad hoc defense. His co-defendants had already interrupted the proceedings to say they object to the attorneys brought in after the entire defense team boycotted the removal of the previous judge last week, but Saddam stayed mum. That is until the judge admonished...
When we were selected last year as the new writers of the Bell Lap, many assumed that we would keep Catizone and Schonberger’s humorous and carefree torch burning. After a summer of reflection, however, we’ve decided that we can’t in good conscience use this venue for comedy, because there is nothing funny about abortion. But there is something funny about two preemies-done-good from Milwaukee having a weekly column in the Harvard newspaper. Well, to be honest, we’re only the interim writers, kind of like how Derek...