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...gladiators in this war include plenty of familiar names, though their number gets smaller by the year (remember Digital Equipment Corp., or Data General?). At the top of the pile are such titans as Sun Microsystems and IBM; they are in gigabyte-to-gigabyte competition for customers like Citigroup that need the world's most powerful machines and can pay more than $1 million a pop for them. Below Sun and Big Blue are innovators like Hewlett-Packard that develop much of their own technology or firms like Compaq that buy it through acquisitions (as Compaq bought...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.’s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D’s. Consider C- a failure). Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn’t thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. “Locke is a transitional figure...
...first couple of days, Mike did not come home at all. Like firemen across the city and country, he worked 24-hour shifts, much of it on the pile, the putrid 16-acre wasteland where the laws of time and space simply do not abide. "We'd be working in one place for a bit, and they'd blow the horn and tell us to run because another building might collapse on us, and then they'd bring us back to the same place two hours later," he recalls. "You'd be doing your work, and then...
Mike still wears his hero's mantle awkwardly, like a blazer that's several sizes too big. On a stormy morning in December, he and E.J. and his older brother Robert pile into his blue Ford Expedition and drive to Dingman-Delaware Elementary School in the Pocono mountains of eastern Pennsylvania. A third-grade class has pooled their piggy banks to raise $150 for the guys in Mike's firehouse, and a local resort has donated a free night's stay. The school's students, told to wear red, white and blue for the occasion, welcome him with a medley...
...this prisoner; so none can know how it feels to fall this far. Like many who are incarcerated, he has turned to religion, pop psychology, any spiritual balm for his depleted soul. He keeps a small shrine of candles and statues of St. Philomena and Christ and a sloppy pile of self-help books such as Your Personal Encourager: Biblical help for dealing with difficult times. He tries to look convincing when he says, "The trials that I am experiencing, I would say it strengthens my faith. I feel that I'm moving closer...