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Even as Bill Gates pleaded ignorance in court last week of his smoking-gun e-mails, two fresh Microsoft memos mysteriously surfaced that give an inside glimpse into how the software giant responds to new ideas it finds threatening. It isn't a pretty sight. "These memorandums lay naked the assumptions of Microsoft's corporate culture--the insularity, the arrogance, the obsessive drive to control," declares Eric Raymond, the programmer who obtained the files and posted them on his website www.opensource.org...
...from Florida to Thailand. Nonetheless, just when it has so much to crow about, Genesis House finds itself in financial jeopardy. The loss of half a million dollars in federal funds this year has forced the agency into an unexpected scramble to maintain its programs; it has had to lay off about half its 25 paid staff members, and use of volunteers has tripled...
...Tender Land, which he produced instead. "Immensely proud" and wanting "the Met or nothing," Allanbrook shelved the score and moved onto other projects, not wanting to waste time selling the piece when he could be writing others. So, for nearly 50 years following its composition, the opera lay unproduced and unpremiered while Allanbrook wrote other pieces and carried on his busy life as a professor. According to John Allanbrook '99, his father did talk about the work, and tried "to convince [Allanbrook] that it wouldn't need a large string section, and that it would be easy to produce." While...
...hour into the return trip home, a Frito Lay truck smashed into the right side of the association's Century charter bus in Bronx...
Whereas Grogan's predecessor, James H. Rowe III '73, was a former Washington lobbyist whose strength lay on Harvard's political front, Grogan, who will assume office in January, was once Boston's head of neighborhood development and is known for being a community relations specialist...