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...good news about Fujitsu's new FlatScreen television is obvious: it's just over four inches thick, and it hangs on any wall as simply as a Picasso. A designer's dream, surely. But the less good news may be more important: the picture is murkier than images on most old-style television sets, and the Ivana-thin display costs, ahem, $25,000 (for the 42-in. incarnation, on sale at Hammacher Schlemmer). Nonetheless, TV analyst Allen Griffin says the set is a good omen. The breakthrough "plasma" technology that made these high-end boxes possible should push higher-quality...
...problem with this approach to the racial situation on campus is that it tolerates the status quo and says that what is is the best that there can be. It claims as beneficial the tension experienced by minorities here because such thick skin is what it takes to make it in the real world. But a double standard of comfortability seems to be at work in this mean logic. Certainly WASPs have the need to feel comfortable on this campus, and no one faults them for retreating into their final club lairs. (I know, I know, you have a black...
Those of us with thick skin can even consider this prudential advice; one who does not actively market oneself may sell better than an aggressive go-getter. As tactics run, though, this is a bit questionable, best suited to those with truly powerful voices. For if you speak softly, you may need to market yourself simply to compete with all your loud-mouthed fellows...
...says stupid things like that all the time," said George H. Sun '94, a third year law student. "He makes fun of everything. I think the professors need to be a little bit more thick-skinned...
...There was thick smoke throughout the building...