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Amtrack was clearly looking out for the late-January travelers with their release of the newer, sleeker and faster Acela train. Apparently it should have taken more than three hours to travel from New Haven, the location of that inferior bulldog-crazed psuedo-university, to Boston's South Station train station. But the ride was barely longer than two hours! The other Harvard students (who had also been sucked into that embarrassment of a college and pathetic excuse of a "town") on the Acela train rejoiced at the speed with which they were whisked away to less hostile territory...
Wheee! In one presidential cycle, cyberpolitics has gone from being the quirky obsession of a college kid and his gizmo at the back of campaign headquarters to something far sleeker--e-campaigning. The capital's hard-bitten direct-mail and fund-raising pros are reshaping their careers, slinging e-jargon e-nauseam and looking to those same kids for Web strategies. Millions of dollars have been raised for presidential candidates online, and voters who may not know about any of them are being targeted at their terminals and put to work...
...steady drop in cost and rise of swifter, sleeker products are pushing another trend as well: the expanding corps of small businesses that can act bigger than their size by going online. With quick 56K modems and low-cost servers, lots of businesses see the Web as an opportunity that has arrived...
Students surfing the Harvard University web page may notice some substantial changes, including a sleeker presentation and a more powerful search engine...
...second item on the program after the opening Prelude No. 25. In spite of a few oddly reassuring finger slips (proof, perhaps, that Pollini is not a cybernetic organism) the interpretation seemed scarily authoritative. A percussive left hand and a sometimes sotto voce right transformed this standby into a sleeker, more macho epyllion...