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...deserve the most attention. That's great, but why not also include technology that more directly helps shoppers? At Circuit City, based in Richmond, Va., receipts are stored electronically and can be accessed in any store coast to coast. This technology is widely available, but Circuit City has been shrewd enough to feature its version in TV ads, fostering its image as a place where it's easy to return merchandise and where shopping is hassle free. Outdoor equipment retailer REI, based in Kent, Wash., makes smart use of technology, according to Forrester's Delhagen, by placing computer kiosks...
...Shrewd investing, the Internet economy and a strong commodities market combine to create a record $4.8 billion surge in Harvard’s coffers, bringing the endowment to more than $19 billion...
Dallek, author of a balanced two-volume life of Lyndon Johnson, is neither debunker nor hagiologist, but rather a fairly shrewd syncretist with a certain amount of new material to bring to light. Kennedy, it may be, learned concealment from his father and denial from his mother. Jack's hidden life involved not only sexual intimacies with many women but also an enormous quantity of pain and illness. As no biographer before him has done, Dallek has assembled medical records to speculate about the effect of so many ailments and drugs upon Kennedy's conduct in the White House...
...drive on Baghdad to decapitate the regime and then liberate the rest of the country--Saddam has counterattacked from the outside in. He let allied forces plunge deep inside Iraq, leaving their rear and flanks ill protected so that his forces could harass and ambush them. His aim was shrewd and twofold: to pester and wear down allied forces and lure the U.S. into inflicting politically costly civilian casualties...
...beginning of an undergraduate’s first year, when students cannot walk to the dining hall without contending with crowds of camera-snappers blocking the 50-foot radius around the John Harvard statue, and when minute details of campus events end up on CNN. But as some shrewd students have learned, this can be used this to their advantage...