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...about "living specialization," and apparently it's the hot thing. The College wants to offer different models of suites for different students. The athlete, or at least the sports fan, can sign up for a large room with ratty couches, TV projector with satellite dish and built-in keg tap. The starving artist can inhabit a cubicle containing nothing but its own six black walls, with black and white postcards of jazz musicians to be tacked up later. The John Harvard Scholar, meanwhile, can pick a similar little cube, only entirely white inside, equipped with not one but two desks...
McAuliffe's success lies partly in the fact that he can tap the treasuries of both labor and industry, the far ends of the Democratic empire. While one of his mentors, former House whip Tony Coehlo, got Washington lobbies to spread their largesse to probusiness Democrats in the 1980s, young McAuliffe hit the road to find new donors in law firms, mid-size businesses and real estate brokerages. His recruits were people who were reliable voters but were sometimes excluded from the established social register--Jews, Irishmen and Asians. By 1993, McAuliffe had boosted ninefold the D.N.C.'s club...
Wayne Friedman, entertainment-marketing reporter for Advertising Age, says today's admakers look to tap into underground movements quickly so that they can make use of sounds and images that aren't necessarily familiar but that pique interest. Acts like Moby fit the bill. Says Friedman: "It's almost like you can't be overly commercial when you're trying to make commercials...
PALM VII $450, plus $10 to $45 a month for e-mail and Web access This version of the best-selling handheld computer comes with a wireless modem that lets you send e-mail and tap into...
...well as former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Schultz. The message in the photo opportunity was unmistakable: I may not be able to name the president of Chechnya or the prime minister of India, but I have some of the best brains in foreign policy on tap. It did seem a little counterintuitive, though, to be lambasting Vice President Gore for "Cold War thinking" while rubbing shoulders with some of its most accomplished architects and repackaging President Reagan's missile defense policy. Then again, Reagan national security adviser Robert McFarlane long ago acknowledged that rather than seriously contemplating...