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...stop. HP has beefed up its 20,000-strong sales force and targeted its attention on the top 2,000 firms worldwide. The company has just launched a $40 million rebranding campaign, complete with a new tagline: "Let's Do Amazing." "We're entering an era where the primary thing is going to be services," says HP strategy chief Shane Robison. "And we want to be there to provide the necessary infrastructure." (See pictures of the cell phone's history...
Unseating Dell is one thing; usurping IBM or Cisco remains a longer shot. But HP clearly has their attention. After nearly a year of very public infighting, Cisco finally booted HP from its privileged-partner circle in February, cutting off all proprietary information. Speaking on a corporate blog, Cisco exec Keith Goodwin minced few words: "We are taking this action to be transparent to both partners and customers - we will compete with HP for future business...
...pattern that could just as handily describe Lynch's career. After years of acting in commercials, minor films and TV shows (her 1988 turn in Vice Versa, she half jokes, is "a hard thing to watch"), she caught a break as a lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger...
...more than that in the future. For now, Lynch is enjoying every minute - with a fervor that Sue would never tolerate. "I've been around the block. I know it doesn't happen all the time," says Lynch of Glee's success. "It's kind of a blessed thing...
...host and we went to his room to drop off my bags," Scott J. Yim '13 recalls. "When I walked in, the first thing I noticed was a beer pong table. The room was so littered with empty bottles and crushed cans that you had to play hopscotch to get around. My host turned to me and said, 'put your stuff down—we're going to get you wasted...