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...goal of Rudenstine's administration since it began in 1991 has been to weaken the rugged-individual school paradigm. But Rudenstine did so delicately, proposing to transform Harvard's decentralized environment-not to something more centralized-but to a more coordinated, cooperative system, capitalizing on the magical buzzword of the '90s: Synergy...
...other way around? If technology shapes events, then perhaps we should be naming the technocrats. If greatness is defined by the ability to deal with the cataclysmic effects of technology, then we should name religionists and philosophers. We are in the middle of a massive paradigm shift, and we should not get so busy naming trees that we neglect the whole forest. ENID P. STERN Sandy Spring...
...area of Apple that doesn't bear Jobs' fingerprints. Take product development. "We've reviewed the road map of new products and axed more than 70% of the projects, keeping the 30% that were gems. Plus we're adding new ones that are a whole new paradigm of looking at computers," he says. "The product teams at Apple are very excited. There's so much low-hanging fruit, it's easy to turn around...
Regaining traction will require what Jobs last week called "a new paradigm." Just what this might consist of, though, is unclear. Build low-cost network computers? Split up into hardware and software siblings? Or just rely on next year's expected release of the post-Mac operating system, Rhapsody, based on Jobs' NeXT technology, which Apple shelled out $424 million for last winter? True believers call Rhapsody the greatest OS ever and Apple's savior (Tim Berners-Lee did invent the Web on it); skeptics call NeXT a marketplace failure and an albatross Apple should have left around Steve Jobs...
...concern that all of us have is that no single paradigm should dominate black studies," Robinson says. "It has happened with every discipline in the history of academia and Harvard is in great danger there...