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...Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst," says Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and a longtime Gates watcher. According to G. Pascal Zachary, author of Showstopper! (Free Press; $22.95), a book about the making of Windows NT, the company is the model of a new, postmodern corporate culture, perfectly suited to survive in an era of rapid technological change. The Microsoft way, says Zachary, writing in Upside magazine, is neither purely individualistic (the American approach) nor consensus driven (the Japanese style) but a third way he calls "armed truce," in which employees are encouraged to challenge everybody, even...
...behind him. The artfully twisted limbs and contorted white bodies come not from "Schindler's List" but from The Raft of the Medusa and The Death of Sardanapalus. Delacroix and Gericault sit on Chereau's shoulders like twin angels of visual excess. (Chereau also includes nods to Rembrandt; Pascal Greggory as Margot's brother Anjou is a dead ringer for Rembrandt's Polish Rider...
Julie and Pascal Munyanziza and their two children, who had fled to the south, made the journey back to their tidy three-room house in a mixed Tutsi and Hutu section of Kigali. They found all the windows broken and much of the furniture gone, but the windows have been patched and the house now bears a handwritten sign: IYINZU BANYIRAYO BARAHARI (The owner is here). "If you don't mark your house," says Munyanziza, "someone will take...
Ferrell says he would not have taken the course if it had been taught in Pascal. "I only would have taken it if it were in C or C++ because its what everybody uses, Pascal is outdated and useless...
Sharon Fenick '94, a computer science concentrator and CS50 teaching fellow, feels that the CS50 language change was not crucial. "It just always seemed like less of a pressing issue," she says. "Pascal is a good educational language so they concentrated on teaching other things...