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...Silicon Valley guys like to smirk, calling him the Wal-Mart of the tech world. But Michael Dell, 39, is having the last laugh. What started as a $1,000 investment, and was launched in his dorm room at the University of Texas, is today the world's No. 1 computer maker in market share, thanks to a relentless focus on selling direct to the consumer. First came desktops and notebooks, then servers and storage, and now printers and flat-screen TVs. The company racked up $41 billion in sales last year and wants to boost that to $80 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Dell: From College Dorm to Tech Powerhouse | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Watching this schoolyard scuffle with a smirk plastered across his goateed face, taking a perpetually unsatisfying drag from his hand-rolled cigarette, is the intellectual film critic. To those removed from the academic world, this person doesn’t exist, but any student at all familiar with the inside of a university film studies department knows his kind very well. Subsisting on a rigid diet of Fassbinder and Brakhage, the only filmic pleasure he knows is found deep within his Criterion collection...

Author: By Ben B. Chung and Ben Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Does Roger Ebert Matter? | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...application. The friend withheld the fact that she too was applying for the same internship, leading Jennifer to believe that her application was used as a springboard for ideas. “She is one of my best friends,” Jennifer says with a slight smirk. “I was happy she didn?...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When Success Encounters Failure | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...tattered genre Hollywood could revive, making a few bucks and a lot of converts to the old magic of movies. At least, it would indicate that liberal Hollywood isn't afraid of serving up the occasional helping of traditional values alongside its usual smorgasbord of guns, fists, tits and smirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hypocrisies | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...spiteful rhymes and often tuneless tunes uncomfortably evoke thoughts of slavery—functional, slow and relentless like dirges, with scarred chants serving as choruses. There’s little time for bling-bling hedonism; at best Banner and clique wallow in their grim depravity with a smirk. Crunk ballads (!) such as “My Lord” are overshadowed by workhorse tracks like “Crank It Up” and the “Like A Pimp” remix. If the first Mississippi: The Album was cathartic and empowering, then this one only finds relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW MUSIC | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

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