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Nearly a year and a half later, the University has done something somewhat out of line with typical Harvard protocol--they admitted they made a mistake in their handling of casual workers...
...difficulty is noted by Hal Varian, dean of the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley: there are different definitions of just what the Internet is. "In a very narrow sense," he says, "it might be defined as a standardized protocol for wide-area computer networks." A broader definition, he explains, would be "the entire system of computers, plus the LANS [local area networks], plus the wide area network." That would come close to embracing most of what is generally considered information technology...
...Fisher Jurvetson who has invested in FastParts, an electronics trading exchange, and Sonnet Financial, an online foreign exchange, calls B2B "the iceberg waiting to emerge." "Most people," Jurvetson says, "understand the business-to-consumer market because they are consumers themselves. It's kind of like the Beardstown Ladies' investment protocol: use a product, come to understand it and then invest in it. With business-to-business, though, unless you are entrenched in that industry and really understand that market segment, you are not going to appreciate how it's revolutionizing that business...
...practical matter, it's up to Washington to repair the damage. Lee's abandonment of the protocol that kept the peace was "highly reckless and provocative," says Henry Kissinger, the man who invented the one-China policy as President Richard Nixon's National Security Adviser. Stuck so uncomfortably in the middle, the U.S. cannot afford to play electoral politics over Taiwan or flinch from making Taipei practice restraint. Unless Americans are willing to have their children fight for Taiwan, the U.S. must make it just as clear to Taiwan as to China that it will not permit either...
...first time John Kennedy Jr. registered in the national imagination, he was at the side of a coffin. On his third birthday, holding a flag and saluting his murdered father, he was already mastering the Kennedy protocol of premature farewells, the leave-takings that are nearly as much a family tradition as touch football and big weddings. The assassination of J.F.K. seemed to many people the terrible culmination of a Kennedy-family saga that began in the ambitions of father Joe. It turned out instead to be just the most spectacular episode in a family history littered with misfortunes: plane...