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...contrast, Apple Computer -- which has surpassed IBM as the leading PC maker for the first time ever -- is having a spectacular year, largely on the success of its laptop PowerBook. Apple and Compaq are reaping the benefits of huge demand sparked by aggressive price cutting. Workstation manufacturers, such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, are also enjoying strong demand for their machines. IBM is still catching up in workstations. Although it developed superb technology years ago, the company sat on it out of fear that it would cannibalize IBM's bread-and-butter mainframe business...
This brings us to the purpose of student athletics at Harvard. Participation on a team should be seen as an open opportunity, not a potential money-maker for the University. If students are going to devote their lives to a Harvard team, they should be treated fairly...
DELL COMPUTER'S METEORIC RISE TO THE TOP ranks of the personal-computer industry has kept rivals wondering for some time how the manufacturer has managed to sustain its miraculous climb. Then a Wall Street analyst claimed he had the answer: the PC maker's ascent had less to do with miracles than with some sleight-of-hand accounting. In a blistering report to investors, David Korus of Kidder, Peabody charged that Dell accounted improperly for foreign- currency trades and suggested that currency speculation may have been used to inflate the company's profits. The report touched off a wave...
...sandbagged -- there seems no better word for it -- by the magazine's present owner, Mort Zuckerman. It's hard to avoid smugness when recounting one's triumphs, and the author does not always succeed. Manning got his start at the Binghamton (N.Y.) Press, which had been founded by the maker of an alcoholic elixir called Swamp Root. Interesting factoid, but it's a bit of a reach for a cutesy-poo title...
Spike Lee is a logo maker of genius. It seems as if half the T shirts worn by American kids tout Lee's BUTTON YOUR FLY campaign for Levi's jeans, and half of the baseball caps carry the defiant initial X -- a clever device that raised consciousness of Malcolm and, not incidentally, advertised Lee's movie biography a year before its release...