Word: paule
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...office have high-speed connections to the Net; a wired nation surfs an endless array of digital infotainment, and--sorry, Sumner--the '80s-era conglomerates brimming with vertically integrated synergy are about as relevant as rabbit ears. The Viacom-CBS merger "has the feel of a nostalgia purchase," says Paul Saffo of the Institute for the Future. "It's as if you're out hiking, and a mastodon pops up in front...
...Close to 200 showed up for the game--not bad on a campus of 1,380. It is more common to see students at games wearing Swarthmore math department T shirts (WE MATH GOOD) than football jerseys. "A lot of people don't care about football here," said senior Paul Dickson, an engineering major. "It doesn't exactly fit into the culture." But the team's ignominious run has aroused the curious. Said another senior, Abbas Ebrahim: "There's the whole Cinderella thing about the streak." As he spoke, Swarthmore scored on a long touchdown pass. The student section erupted...
There's David S. (but he's changed it to "X." for a futuristic feel) Cohen '88, an executive producer of "Futurama." Steven R. Tompkins '88 is a big shot on the Eddie Murphy vehicle "The PJs." Paul Simms '88 created "NewsRadio." And those are just 'Poonsters from Oakley's year (consider that his class had about 15 members...
...Paul Romer, professor of economics at Stanford University, heartily agrees on the state of America's (and the Internet's) socioeconomic divide: "My guess is it's going to be just like internal combustion on the farm," he says. "If there isn't a change in investments in skills, it will actually widen...
...connection with last week?s apartment bombing in which 90 people were killed had rented a storage space in the crumpled building, and politicians of every stripe hastened to connect the attacks to the continuing war in Dagestan. "At the same time, though," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge, "they?re also stressing that they?re not grounds for declaring a state of emergency, which could be used to cancel elections...