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Sometimes, when I'm feeling uncharacteristically sensitive, I manage a tiny empathetic shudder for Microsoft. The company is getting pummeled every which way. At the top, it's taking a shellacking from the Justice Department, which has effectively painted it as the slickest monopoly since Standard Oil. At the bottom, the hacker underground is attacking it with viruses like Melissa and Happy99.exe. And at Microsoft's very core, its next-generation operating system, Windows 2000, is MIA. The long-promised Windows overhaul, due months ago, might not even reach consumers by the millennium. The company has apparently just discovered that...
...first year of college, is that it seems incredibly important at the time, while it actually ends up having little to no effect on anyone's life. Many seniors today would have to ponder for a while if asked to name all of their original blockmates. Still more would shudder to think of the blocking groups they once begged to join. Real friendships are not things that one can write down on a list, or classify according to importance on a scale of one to 15, or decide based on a majority vote. While some people may be blessed with...
...myself, was fairly lucky. I held my own in kickball, and I could throw a baseball with sufficiently masculine form. But, I was certainly no athletic superstar, and I endured my fair share of teasing. To this day, the sight of a gym rope makes me shudder...
...that finals are over and I've nearly regained my sanity, I can look back on that moment of near-arson and shudder to think about what I almost did. Setting any piece of Harvard property on fire would probably cost more in legal fees than the entire Kennedy clan could afford, and that's nothing compared to what would happen if a nearby building also became inflamed. Besides the money issue, however, I'll play Girl Scout leader for a moment--setting things that aren't yours on fire is wrong, and shouldn't be done...
...many of those funny interconnections have been cut. Financial institutions have used the time to weed their portfolios and especially to reduce their exposure to high-risk regions and sectors. That helped international markets shake off Brazil's latest shudder. The downside is that emerging economies are largely off the horizon of foreign portfolio managers, who feel safer on Wall Street no matter how giddy its prices. As Naim notes, Amazon.com now has a market capitalization that exceeds the entire stock market of Argentina...