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...Thrust into an environment that demanded we claw toward an exalted few, genuine interest was a major casualty. With name tags and routine attempts at small talk, we were asked questions about where we were from...
...What was the thinking in picking these particular partners? Each of them represents a different strategic thrust. In Dell's case, if you look at the demographic of who they sell to, they're heavy Google users, so they were a logical big partner for software distribution for us. In the case of MySpace, it's generally well known that they are the breakout in social networks. Everybody's moving to MySpace, basically. And all the numbers say that their growth rate is much higher than anybody else's. They're much, much larger than the others. Intuit has something...
...existing user base. That May agreement will put Google's toolbar on millions of Dell machines, and it prompted Google execs to seek other such alliances. Those partners "have a way of reaching customers that we do not on our own," Schmidt says, "and each represents a different strategic thrust...
...most sterling outlets, the Fox News Channel, was forced to air some of the most unkind, hurtful, and––dare I say it––agitated commentary ever to see airtime. Ordinarily calm, even-handed, and intellectually honest, Fox was thrust unwittingly into the unfamiliar realm of the angry political diatribe when a guest lost his calm and flaunted his nasty, baseless feelings before the entire nation. Who was this guest who so compromised Fox’s reputation for candid honesty and unfaltering decency? None other than former President of the United...
...publish names, and such a policy may even be valuable in cases involving publicly known figures—such as the well-publicized plagiarism case of Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 last spring. But an entirely different standard must be applied to private figures who are involuntarily thrust into the spotlight...