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...ways to solve problems. Jump Associates, based in San Mateo, Calif., recently collaborated with General Electric's executive-jet business. Jump managing associate Dev Patnaik walked the GE people through hangars and later sent them to a toy store; one brought back a model plane attached to a plastic landing strip. The executive, Patnaik recalls, said, "This is it--this is the problem with executive jets!" He then explained that the services jet owners expect at home aren't always available in the locations they fly to. GE now aims, metaphorically at least, to let its clients "take the tarmac...
...Before we get started, we have a problem set to finish. So, what happens to investment in the U.S. if a report states that the government deficit for 2008 will be higher than anticipated? 2) On to more serious matters, boxers or briefs? Satin or cotton? Paper or plastic!? 3) Who’s the biggest PILF on campus? You know, Professor I’d Like to Fu… Fire. 4) Did you worry that the new alcohol policies will affect your approval rating? 5) What’s the meaning of life? 6) In your book...
...Before we get started, we have a problem set to finish. So, what happens to investment in the U.S. if a report states that the government deficit for 2008 will be higher than anticipated? 2) On to more serious matters, boxers or briefs? Satin or cotton? Paper or plastic!? 3) Who’s the biggest PILF on campus? You know, Professor I’d Like to Fu… Fire. 4) Did you worry that the new alcohol policies will affect your approval rating? 5) What’s the meaning of life? 6) In your book...
...whole world and its mother has expressed an opinion about Yale senior Aliza Shvarts and her ill-begotten senior art project, which allegedly involved repeatedly inseminating herself and taking abortofacient drugs, filming her miscarriages, and then smearing the blood on a big plastic cube. Speculation continues over whether she actually carried out the acts or whether (as is more likely) it’s all a big “creative fiction” in aid of discourse, discomfort, and one student’s 15 minutes of fame...
...sold: the North End, authentic or not, was delicious. The tour continued through a wine store and a green grocer before returning to the shops I visited with Giovanna Tognetti the week before—La Salumeria Italiana, Sulmona Meat Market, and Polcari’s Coffee, where plastic barrels of dried legumes lined the floor, glass jars full of licorice root stick teetered precariously, and the whole store smelled like the deepest corner of a spice cabinet. Topor pointed out the same things that Ms. Tognetti had: the “real” Nutella in the glass...