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...writer, as she sits in front of a whiteboard filled with scribbled translations of the English words for superstar, IPO and Red Herring. Sina's top lieutenants are committed to globalization?the company distinguishes itself with websites aimed at overseas Chinese worldwide. But these days, they take slim comfort in the idea that China has done so well in establishing local brand names that the multinationals can't just bulldoze them out of existence?they can just buy them...
...loved Dylan in his first festering bloom are nearing forced-retirement age, so his win had the attic odor of a Life Achievement Award for still being alive. In his via-satellite performance of "Things Have Changed," Dylan, who turns 60 in May, looked like a desiccated Snideley Whiplash, slim mustache and all. But it was worth it to hear the geezer hipster enunciate that grand cliché, "I want to thank the members of the Academy," and then congratulate them of "for being so bold" in giving an Oscar to a song whose lyrics most of them could...
According to Watson, students were not actively discouraged from applying, but some may have figured their chances for selection were slim...
Ultimate TV's supposedly universal remote didn't fare much better. It was bulky, sluggish, overly complicated and couldn't even be made to turn on my TV. I missed TiVo's slim little clicker, which recognized the TV semi-automatically. And I really missed its thumbs-up and thumbs-down buttons...
Incidentally, Bush was elected by scarcely more voters in Florida than there were members of the Harvard Board of Overseers who met Sunday on the 64th floor of the GE building in Manhattan to vote unanimously for Summers. This slim mandate means a soured economy, and no tax cuts may prompt voters to turn against Bush in the polls for his inability to stop the market slide. Perhaps he'll call on Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein, another world-renowned economist who, like Summers, used to work in government but has since returned to the Academy. If Feldstein...