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...business people who stake their livelihood on shifts in consumer behavior see thousands of small changes that they believe are adding up to something. At a Brookstone store in Boston, a man exchanges a gift, trading in a $99 executive fountain pen ("I'll never use it") for a car-care kit. Suddenly people want to buy toys that don't take batteries. Sales of dolls are up. Power dressing is out. One sign: shoulder pads, standard issue for the female corporate warrior, are finally disappearing from women's clothing. Even designers are getting into the act: Donna Karan...
...Harvard community got a good laugh this week when The Crimson printed those naughty Mozart lyrics that nobody else--not the New York Times and certainly not The Harvard Gazette--would print. And while many were shocked that one of classical music's greatest composers could pen such lowly lyrics, the observant were well-acquainted with Mozart's penchant for the scatalogical and the mildly pornographic...
There actually was a cute little pig on Maupiti. It lived in a pen behind Mama Roro's, and on the third day we were there it was served for dinner in honor of a son's wedding. Accompanied by a delicious sweet squash dish, it was the best meal I have ever eaten in my entire life...
Napoleon once remarked, "The ancients had a great advantage over us in that their armies are not trailed by a second army of pen pushers." The armies in the gulf are trailed by pen pushers, camera lenses, microphones, satellites, the eyes of the world...
...seems particularly well positioned to benefit from the budding market for battery-powered, pen-based computers. Rather than make the machines itself, the company hopes it can license its elegant control software, called PenPoint, to computer manufacturers who would in turn pay Go royalties. Among the firms that are expected to begin shipping PenPoint models within the next six to 12 months: Grid, NCR and the biggest computer maker of them all, IBM. The machines will probably sell for $4,000 to $6,000. Microsoft -- the software giant based in Redmond, Wash., that has supplied IBM's operating systems...