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...Book says, surrounded by all that darkness which lay 'upon the face of the deep.' 'We will have to raise,' someone said, 'at least $3 billion.' 'There will have to be,' said another, 'an irresistible, scintillating plan--written, illustrated, printed and distributed within four months, so that we can launch the campaign by spring.' 'And the whole University must be included,' said another, 'working in its traditional, coordinated, flawless, non-competitive, polyphonic, friction-free way--so that sights can be raised; crescent moons can become full; tides can swell; and all our tubs can paddle off together, to the happy...
...would blow to pieces in a stiff wind. Until three years ago, the local school was in equally sad shape, plagued by some of the lowest grades and worst attendance rates in the city. All of which might seem to qualify Orchard Hills as a spectacularly inappropriate spot to launch a bid to revolutionize American education...
...Internet was first created in response to the Soviet launch of Sputnik 40 years ago. Then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) as a part of the Department of Defense...
...District of Columbia. "She was a very strong advocate for the district and hammered [the President] on this thing, because she gets out in the community more than he does," says White House spokesman Mike McCurry. But when it came time to put forward a specific plan and launch a fight for it on Capitol Hill, the job fell to Budget Director Franklin Raines. Says Cisneros: "She's found a new way to get things done...
...struggled since the day it was born. It was conceived as a proprietary online service, a la AOL, then hastily recast just before launch as a Web service much of whose programming was available only to subscribers for a fee. Since then, the tight-knit community of Internet content developers--on whom MSN is dependent for its programming--has been retailing stories of editorial confusion, marketing failures and internal reorganizations...