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...hardware side, developments have been just as fruitful. As a testimony, last week I purchased 3Com's PalmPilot and already wonder how I lived without it. No longer do I lug around a three-inch binder with calendar, meeting minutes and financial info. Instead I slip the wallet sized Pilot into my pocket...
...card market. With a slew of new consumer cards to go with its traditional strength in corporate plastic, American Express raised its share of the $469 billion general purpose card volume in the first half of 1997 from 18.3% to 18.9%--as Visa saw its No. 1 position slip very slightly from...
...Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, the plot follows a female flight attendant (Pam Grier) as she sets about holding on to some cash, orbited by a small-time gunrunner (Samuel L. Jackson) and a lovelorn bailbondsman (Robert Forster). Unfortunately, Tarantino has complicated things by letting too much B-movie slip into his creation: specifically, bits of a score from the blaxploitation movie Coffy and a none-too-riveting acting style on the part of the title's heroine...
...living in Budapest in 1941. Soros has called the years the most important of his life. Grove calls Soros "totally different from me in that respect." The time, he insists, hasn't marked him. But late at night, over Scotch and sushi--Grove is partial to eel--the stories slip...
...fight for student services; that the world is not watching what Harvard's student government says--and does not say. All these charges were taken up, if not so effectively articulated, by the progressive candidates in last week's race. Yet the progressives let one Stewart-Cohen fallacy slip by: that the student body, divided on ostensibly political issues, is united behind student services. This is simply not the case...