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Cometa recently inked a cunningly symbiotic deal to test Wi-Fi in 10 McDonald's outlets in Manhattan. If the test works out, Mickey D's 30,000 U.S. locations will provide the kind of footprint in the heartland that Cometa needs. McDonald's is interested not only in better serving road-warrior diners but also in the savings to be had from a network where everything down to the milkshake machine's maintenance schedule can be accessed at a moment's notice. The company has Wi-Fi in Australian, Japanese, Swedish and Taiwanese restaurants...
Richard Price grew up in a housing project in the Bronx. He lives now with his wife and two teenage daughters in a fancy-funky town house off Gramercy Park in Manhattan, the kind of place you head for after you make a few million as a novelist and screenwriter. The author of Clockers and Freedomland - lush, knowing, best-selling books about struggle and redemption in the projects - has been up in that high-priced league for more than a decade. Which means that in the eyes of the world, he suffers from a variation of the Bruce Springsteen Problem...
...Wechsler] was the anti-Holden Caulfield, a red antithesis of J.D. Salinger’s lonely, alienated teen traveler in Manhattan,” historian Mark Solomon writes in the afterword to Wechsler’s book...
Summers will be the first Harvard president since James B. Conant ’14—who participated in the Manhattan Project—to play a prominent role in national policy while in office. Summers’ experience in the Clinton Administration and the World Bank gives him expert insight to bring to the discussion. And whatever conclusions the task force ultimately draws, that Summers is engaging in such a relevant and important debate is promising for the future of his tenure and the office of the Harvard president. The concern that some have raised, that...
...team’s season may have concluded almost a month ago in Manhattan, Kansas during the first-round of the NCAA Tournament, but Harvard women’s basketball coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s off-season got a bit busier today. Delaney-Smith was named an assistant coach of the 2003 USA Basketball Championships for Young Women, to be held this summer from July 25 to August 3 in Sibenik, Croatia...