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...last week the Empire struck back. On Friday 300 Ohio Republicans and more than 500 Illinois Republicans climbed on buses for an overnight ride into Iowa, where they would bang on doors and get out the vote for Dole. Anti--flat tax forces in the real estate and construction industries planned to spend $250,000 in Iowa and New Hampshire to try to save the mortgage-interest deduction, which Forbes' plan would drop. Their Coalition to Preserve Home Ownership began mailing flyers to every homeowner who voted in the last New Hampshire primary. The mailing does not mention Forbes...
Jobs makes the point that Pixar, like other IPO overnight successes, was really anything but an overnight success. "The things that I've done in my life have required a lot of years of work before they took off," he says. He and Wozniak started work on Apple in 1975. "So it was really six years of work before we went public. And Pixar has been 10 years...
Totally changing the minds of almost one billion peasants is not an overnight task. It is impossible to put such abstract concepts as freedom on the agenda when the majority of a huge population is still uneducated and poor. If the government tells them, "Okay, now you have your human rights and can do anything you want," they are very likely to be confused and then use their freedom in undesirable ways. What are they going to do with their freedom, when all they care about is how to earn enough to buy meat as a luxury? To them, freedom...
Other topics of discussion included alumni dissatisfaction with the overnight razing of Carey Cage and the criticism of the University's lack of publication concerning both this and the Great Hall...
...trains, no cabs, no nothin'--just snow," grumped a Manhattanite. Declared another: "I got here--that's enough. You want me to work too?" In fact, commuters in several cities never got there at all, stranded overnight in trains. Some of the week's cheerier air travelers ran luggage-cart races during enforced overnight stays in terminals up and down the coast. Many of the surlier ones, it seemed, were packed onto United Flight 801 from New York City to Tokyo, whose captain reportedly had to threaten arrest to maintain order when the plane was delayed 7 1/2 hours...