Word: master
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...world is a conflict between consolidation and disintermediation (a word that sounds like a tropical disease but means the removal of intermediaries, such as banks, from financial transactions). The disintermediation camp--led by software firms like Microsoft and Intuit--believes that the future will belong to companies that master the technology of this new era, firms that give investors subatomic-level control over their finances with sophisticated products that balance risk and reward, cost and value. The opposite camp--led by McColl and others--argues that the future belongs to huge financial institutions that will package investments and provide investors...
When he was appointed "special master" last December in the Justice Department's closely watched antitrust suit against Microsoft, Lawrence Lessig expected that by spring he'd be the most important person in the court--the expert telling Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson how to sort through the legal and technological issues underlying the complex case. Instead, he's the one being judged. A federal appeals court will decide this week whether he is, as Microsoft claims, too deeply biased against it to make an impartial recommendation...
Metaphysical expressions come easily to the cerebral Lessig, who holds a master's degree in philosophy from Cambridge and often retreats for solo reading vacations to such places as Vietnam and Central America. Perhaps too easily. "Sold my soul and nothing happened" was how he chose to describe the trouble he was having installing Microsoft's Internet Explorer to a lawyer friend at Microsoft archenemy Netscape. The line was from a Jill Sobule song, a bit of pop-music whimsy from an opera fan who often wears stereo headphones while he works. It was a joke...
...child, he obsessed about the perfect body, something to combine the physique of the ancient Greeks with the meditative strength of the East. The result was 500 exercises requiring intense concentration and centered mainly on a strong abdomen, as well as deep stretching. "This is your powerhouse," says Pilates master teacher Romana Kryzanowska, 75, her hand on her stomach. "With that you can do this": her right leg scissors into a kick that would make a Rockette cry, with her poodle Bijoux nestled nonchalantly in her left...
...says Terry, "I say nowhere else makes thousands of miles of the sharpest thing known to man and has to worry about interaction with biological tissue. You don't have to worry about persuading them after that." Dan Lazarchik got a degree in mechanical engineering from M.I.T. and a master's in technical engineering from Boston University. "At first friends say, 'What's to it?' But it's amazing--more people want to talk to me about my job than to the people who have the sexier jobs at Intel. Everyone has something to say about shaving...