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Apple Computer's latest plans to lay off 2,700 employees (25 percent of its payroll) are a dicey gamble. Having sliced its staff in half since 1995, th e struggling computermaker must now pray that it can keep the workers it needs to think its way out of the tiny corner of the market where it cowers, says San Francisco Bureau Chief Dave Jackson. While Apple CEO Gilbert Emilio insists that the company w ill return to profitability by year's end, that's not really the point in a business where rapid innovation is survival, and where fewer...
Going into the match, the two teams were the only undefeated squads in the Ivies, and although Harvard was ranked above Princeton in the nation--16th and 18th places, respectively--the Tigers were the clear favorite. Harvard had lost its last two games in a row, falling to unranked Providence and Boston College, and had not been as dominant as Princeton in rolling through the Ivy League...
Filled with enough lust and feuding to make Amanda Woodward quake in her boots, these stores, called potboilers, were the pulp fiction of the old -19th century...
Roiling currents of homosexuality dominate this third volume. The theme was present but not expricit in th first novel and explicit but not much developed in the second. It may be that for Price the necessart sterility of gay sex reinforces his pervasive sense of failed connection between people. hutchins Mayfield, a poet and literature professor, and the father who tends gis estranged, AIDS afflicted son, is presented as bisexual, though he is married and his active gay experiences were in his youth. His bisexualtiy has multigenerational echoes. Mayfield's scapegrace father, whose sickness and death are the pivot...
...spite of their wealth of talent, the going certainly won't be a walk in the park. The volleyballers face a difficult schedule which includes formidable opponents such as Princeton and Rutgers Newark, th premier threat of the season...