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...felt that if we did not perform theupgrade, that performance would continue todegrade with increased usage to a point wherethings would be 'too slow' to be acceptable,"Osterberg said...
...moralists misunderstand two things. One is that Starr's rejection by most Americans was itself an ironic triumph of conservatism. For the past 50 years the right has claimed that government can't perform most public purposes, whether those might be educating kids, caring for the poor or buying toilet seats for aircraft carriers at popular prices. This was an attack that started, of course, in the antigovernment rhetoric of the 1960s left. In the '90s Gingrich and his House revolutionaries consolidated that critique and focused it on Congress, assuring us that the place was a ship of fools...
...this more visible than it is in baseball. The other team sports, so dependent on the careful knitting of disparate talents for every act, never isolate the hero quite the way baseball does--especially when it places him alone in the batter's box and challenges him to perform the most difficult feat in all of sports. Even off the field, the baseball star has always seemed to have a more sharply defined persona than other athletes do. Decades pass, and still we feel we know them. Babe Ruth, the profane if lovable libertine; Mickey Mantle, the gifted man-child...
...blues. Simmons missed a connecting flight and was briefly stranded in Puerto Rico. The wedding is expected to be quite an affair: MARTHA STEWART RSVPed; model TYRA BANKS is a bridesmaid; and Simmons' brother JOSEPH (a.k.a. Run of the rap group RUN-D.M.C.), a minister, is scheduled to perform the ceremony...
...report by City Manager Robert W. Healy indicated that professors at Harvard and MIT use their offices to perform consulting, a profitable venture, and that patents frequently bring millions to scientists who use university facilities to develop their inventions. It found that Harvard collected $16.5 million in royalties and fees from licenses and options...