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...That's the harsh new reality for most Web 2.0 and other tech start-ups who've been chasing audiences without regard to the immediate bottom line. Gone is the old mantra - get to a million users, then worry about how you'll monetize. We're back to a nuclear winter, a season that tends to arrive in the bread basket of innovation every four years or so. But this time, the pundits say, expect a long, cold winter that could last five years...
...Where has the government been? Remember Ronald Reagan's mantra: Regulation is bad. The Reagan, Bush I and Bush II Administrations believed in deregulation, tax cuts that provide little relief for most Americans, government subsidies for huge corporations and windfalls for the richest. John McCain now has a "comprehensive" plan for the economy that begins with firing the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yet in September his initial response to this crisis was, once again, to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and to increase Federal Government support for corporate America. Maybe McCain hasn't noticed, but this...
...ludicrous. More and more, the literary world will be confronted with authors writing in multiple languages and combining genres tied to different regions. In order to accommodate emerging literatures and appreciate the global citizen-author, intellectual leaders must indicate a willingness to shrug off literary nationalism and revise their mantra: how about “liberté, égalité, hybridité”? Emma M. Lind ’09, a Crimson editorial chair, is a history and literature concentrator in Winthrop House...
Where has the government been? Remember Ronald Reagan's mantra: Regulation is bad. The Reagan, Bush I and Bush II administrations believed in three main things: deregulation, tax cuts that provide little relief for most Americans and government subsidies for huge corporations. John McCain now has a "comprehensive" plan for the economy that begins with firing the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yet in September his initial response to this crisis was, once again, to make the Bush tax cuts permanent and to increase Federal Government support for corporate America. Maybe McCain hasn't noticed, but this...
...What really matters is what you like, not what you are like,” John Cusack says in “High Fidelity.” This advice could be the mantra of the new movie “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist,” in which the two eponymous star-crossed lovers are united by their worship of indie music—in particular the fictional group Where’s Fluffy. But for all its pretensions to understanding indie music fans, the movie comes across as contrived and unemotional. Nick, played...