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"I was told that there was a survey of the options, various programs and faculty groups made recommendations and pleas for special treatment, and then the dean made his decision, and the next morning there was one e-mail package left on the system," Lewis says.
Scholars have understood for hundreds of years that the two great Homeric epics originated as oral poems in preliterate Greece. (No one really knows how the written texts came into being.) But only in the past 40 or so years have linguists and anthropologists come up with a plausible theory...
A surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for...
But AT&T has not been an agile phone warrior, and there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend...
"They came in and said that they were changing their pleas and admitting to the crimes," Riley said. Blankenship and David also "admitted to sufficient fact" on the charges of "possession of a class B substance with an intent to distribute," she added.