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...your free salmon carpaccio. You and your $500 stock are fine, probably. The only scary thing is, Microsoft has a history of trying to turn big numbers into industry dominance even when it doesn't have lots of good ideas. It's done this in software through its near monopolies in operating systems and Web browsers. If Microsoft eats Yahoo!, it will also have dominance in Web-based e-mail, instant messaging and Web portals. That's got to be a temptation. Sure, Google is "the No. 1 search player," a source close to Google argues. "But users can click...
...admit it, Day is intellectual. Day is full of self-loathing, at times even half-hoping to die: “Human beings, we’re the worst stink in the world, like a disease.” And yet he maintains, more or less constantly, a near-instinctual hope in his eventual rehabilitation and an almost unwilling determination to press on. It is this fact that makes it impossible to not like Day, not to sympathize with him. Even when he chooses to be a tail gunner because “you’re the one they?...
...American society at the time that he was directing his movies. “We were living in a period when two Kennedys had been killed, Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed, John Wallace had been paralyzed,” he said. “Violence was right near the edge of the not-so-distant parts of society.” Despite the brutal scenes in many of Penn’s films, he recognized the senselessness of depicting gratuitous bloodshed and remained committed to communicating the emotional motivations behind a character’s move to violence...
...could have been halved and costs chopped by as much as 40%. "The economics are compelling," says Verbus company director Paul Rollett. "This is a step change in how to do these things." Travelodge certainly thinks so - it has okayed construction of a second, 307-room container-built hotel near Heathrow Airport for later this year...
...didn’t even have a course schedule,” he said. “Those days are over.” Discussion of the report was not entirely self-congratulatory, however. Schuster said that while the proportion of Cambridge students passing standardized tests are the near the state average, comparatively fewer Cambridge students score at the higher “proficient” level. Simmons also emphasized the need to track students further, saying that the district should determine how students who graduate fare in their college career. “It’s one thing...