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...betting that, at $199 a pop, he'll sell so many iPhones that Apple will dominate the rapidly developing mobile Internet platform. Indeed, he believes that this new phone is so compelling - and so within the reach of the masses - that it's worth revisiting the deal he struck with AT&T for the 1.0 version, which reportedly gave Apple up to $12 to $18 per month on every iPhone that AT&T serviced. Instead, AT&T and other international carriers will now be providing a subsidy-supposedly about $200 a phone - to make the device affordable enough...
...presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was killed by an assassin 40 years ago this month, in June 1968. I remember it well; I was a student finishing my first year of graduate work at Harvard and it had already been a tumultuous semester. In January, the Viet Cong had struck hard against U.S. forces in Vietnam with their bloody Tet Offensive. Earlier that month my Selective Service status had been changed to 1-A, a fateful switch that took me away from Harvard and into military service the following year, after all my appeals ran out. Angered by this fate...
...about two weeks before he announced he was forming an exploratory committee to run for President, Obama laid down three ruling principles for his future chief operating officer: Run the campaign with respect; build it from the bottom up; and finally, no drama. Myers was struck by how closely Obama had studied the two campaigns of George W. Bush. "He said he wanted to run our campaign like a business," says Myers. And in a good business, the customer is king. Early on, before it had the resources to do much else, the campaign outsourced a "customer-service center...
...legendary, but I will make a forecast in which I am very confident: Whatever you expect your life and work to be like 10, 20, or 30 years from now, the reality will be quite different. In looking over the 30th anniversary report on my own class, I was struck by the great diversity of vocations and avocations that have engaged my classmates. To be sure, the volume was full of attorneys and physicians and professors as well as architects, engineers, editors, bankers, and even a few economists. Many listed the title "vice president," and, not a few, "president...
Jason M. Scherer ’08, one of the five students honored in the ceremony, said he thought Faust’s remarks struck an appropriate balance, and that some attendees likely did not understand her references to “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell...