Word: owl
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leaf did not spend all her time in Montreal. For instance, her first film for the Film Board, the "Owl Who Married a Goose," was an adaptation of an Inuit legend...
Individuals and clubs have reportedly taken extra precautions to avoid drawing the attention of the Harvard police and the administration. For example, over the weekend, the Owl, a final club, issued alcohol-eligibility wrist bands to guests who produced identification showing they were of legal drinking...
There was a self-serving side to all this, of course. Hollywood stars would like nothing better than to cow the press into docility, thus clearing the way for nonstop coverage of their thriving careers, happy home lives and unflagging concern for the spotted owl. Yet in this instance, Hollywood perfectly tapped into the public mood. The week of mourning that followed Diana's death also saw an outpouring of revulsion at paparazzi tactics, prompting a fresh round of self-appraisal by publications that use their photos and, tacitly at least, condone their excesses...
...dead--or, ahem, the gravely ailing. Let's put it this way: you sure didn't hear the man extolling the wonders of Apple a few years ago, when the Mac still had market relevance. Gates celebrating Apple today is like the Department of the Interior celebrating the spotted owl by fencing in its nesting grounds and trying not to let the last ones...
Microsoft always is, and that's why Microsoft almost always wins. Whether Jobs can flourish by bargaining with the master is very much open to question. Can Apple survive? Sure, and the spotted owl will probably hang in there too. The Mac remains the most usable, intuitive operating system around (this writer still loyally totes his ultra-light Powerbook Duo on any trip that's going to strand him overnight within crouching distance of a phone jack), and it will never disappear entirely. As long as there are wild-eyed digital artists and idealistic undergrads whose Macs mean to them...