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...restructured or swallowed up. Netscape wasn't just another Silicon Valley software company, any more than Apple is just another computer maker. Netscape stood for something grand, something transcendental and empowering. It gave people the tools to communicate their ideas cheaply or sell their stuff to anyone on the planet without going through middlemen, censors, gatekeepers or even...
...well as in daunting places like downtown Boston, where the Central Artery project unfolds today. His portfolio even includes an entire city (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Bechtel built in 140 countries and on six continents. It has been said, hyperbolically perhaps, that Bechtel engineers changed the physical contours of the planet more than any other humans...
...abhorrence: "Isn't that ridiculous--nobody needs a house that big." Or, "Just think how hard it would be to keep that thing clean." The fact that he or she has a Xanadu--and you don't--proves that the owner is a greedy hustler or a planet-polluting slumlord with close Mob ties who should be flogged into bankruptcy like Donald Trump (and, unlike him, left there...
...hype will only get stronger. This is, of course, George Lucas' groundbreaking vision--the trailer offers every indication that the new Star Wars episode will be planet-shattering. In two minutes, witness the rush of images, tantalizingly cryptic and yet strangely familiar. The sheer amount of creatures--humanoids, robots, wacky monsters, Yoda, etc.--Lucas shoves in two minutes is mind-boggling (but where's Chewbacca?). Plus, the detail is astounding; freeze-frame a shot on your browser and notice how "busy" each and every frame actually...
...constantly asked to join, or to apply to join, one Club or another and thereby gain the automatic public notoriety associated with membership. Perhaps more than anyone else on the planet, Harvard students should remain wary of the apparently attractive benefits of "institutionalization...