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...Blue, of course, isn't the only one going after this industry Holy Grail. It will have to do battle with hardwaremakers like Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems; consultants like Accenture; outsourcers like EDS; and software players like BEA, Oracle and Microsoft. Its competitors snort that IBM simply glues together a hodgepodge of inferior systems--all too often pushing its own--and then charges big bucks to have its consultants keep them from breaking down, an approach they predict will soon lose its appeal. IBM's strategy "is an acknowledgment that the very technology it has been peddling all these...
...fact-based epic zigzags through the stories of a dozen hoodlums and 20 years of carnage. The only thing worse than the sadistic glee with which Ze (Leandro Firmino da Hora) runs the town is the veneration he gets from kids who confuse machismo with maturity. "I smoke and snort," one tyro terrorist says. "I've killed and robbed...
...want to imply that all Harvard professors are bad teachers—I have enjoyed many phenomenal lecturers, including professors who sing to make a point (Harvard College Professor and Knafel Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly), snort in imitation of high school German teachers (Harvard College Professor and Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith Ryan), and tell stories about their kids as illustrations of medieval medical history (Kass Professor of the History of Medicine Allan M. Brandt). But for every good teacher I’ve had, there is another who deserved the Teaching Police: there...
...under-the-weather, constantly sneezing, haggard and crazed-looking Will C. Benstein ’03 is sick of people telling him that he looks like shit. Comments Benstein, “Blech [snort...
...tradition is to shout "Hold the dog!" on approaching to warn the occupants to restrain their snarling mastiff. Let the horsemen deal with formal greetings. They'll produce a snuff bottle from the upper folds of their gowns, which double as carryalls, and hand it over for a snort while exchanging a long handshake. Bring appetite enough for thick, yak-milk yogurt, cheese and marmot meat hot from a dung-fired stove. Try fermented cow's or mare's milk. After a bowl or two, you'll be ready to invade Europe yourself...