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Feeling stifled by their corporate masters, Hawkins and Dubinsky left in 1998 to found a rival handheld-device maker, Handspring. After its IPO in 2000, the pair's stake was worth more than $1 billion. Palm, meanwhile, had been spun off three months earlier and was freestanding again. But the handheld market crested in 2001, when 13.3 million Palmlike devices shipped, and both firms now faced new competition from Microsoft's Pocket PC platform...
...great if I, or the President, or the Vice President could be all-knowing," he says, " but we're not. I don't know when the battleship Missouri needs to be painted, but somebody in government decides that the ship has to be repainted. I am not as spun up over this as other people suggest we should be. It's hard for me to keep track of everything that's going on at the White House, let alone what's happening...
...Dogs of Babel is a neatly, almost perfectly constructed novel, but its flawlessness is also its biggest flaw. It's too pretty: it lacks the messiness of reality, and as a result it feels smaller than life, like a nifty short story spun out to feature length, a tragedy staged in a shoebox. It's the difference between cute and beautiful. What The Dogs of Babel lacks is the raw, sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike...
Several provost’s advisory committees spun off of the UPPC to investigate specific options for Allston—such as housing, science, professional schools and cultural activities—have stopped meeting, and only one of the five has written a report...
Once inside the club, Martin and Pereira headed immediately for the main dance floor. It was still early, and they were some of the first ones dancing. As the DJ spun gay anthems—house remixes of diva pop songs—the dance floor filled up, and smoke machines hissed smoke through the room. Energized by the music, Martin and Pereira showed that they were some of the most enthusiastic dancers at the club...