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...back of old medicine cabinets, you may still see the little mail slot - blackened with rust at the edges - through which a man of another time would push a used razor blade, dropping it into a mysterious, never-seen depository, the graveyard of unkeen but still raggedly dangerous blades: a black hole...
Dell's cuts illustrate both the abruptness of the downturn and the almost chaotic nature of today's layoffs, even for companies trying to do right. Dell isn't a Rust Belt dinosaur or a business-plan-and-a-prayer dotcom. Its workers helped write one of the great business success stories of modern times. Dell was founded in 1984 to sell computers without a middleman (Direct from Dell, the ads said). Its hyperefficient model helped it pass Compaq to become North America's largest PC manufacturer. Nor is Dell's good news all behind it. Just last Thursday, Dell...
Hoping to shake off a bit more of its offseason rust, the Crimson (2-3, Ivy 0-0) will play five games in Bradenton, Fla., this weekend as Harvard's pre-Ivy League schedule continues. The team will take the field against Vermont this afternoon and Northwestern in the nightcap...
...freshman Hana Peljto's 21 points off the bench, the Harvard women's basketball team posted a comfortable 68-55 win at Albany (5-16) on Monday night. Typical of all post-exam games, the team showed a few signs of rust but came through...
This week marked the first time captain Melissa Johnson saw action this season. Johnson, back from a season-ending knee injury suffered last year, showed some rust in her first full game back, finishing with only eight points--all in the first half--and six rebounds on 4-of-13 shooting...