Word: touche
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KEEPING IN TOUCH. For students like high school junior Samantha Symonds of Pottstown, Pa., the simple ease of getting assignments online and turning them in via e-mail is reason enough to take homework digital. Samantha, a competitive fencer, travels far from her school for tournaments and boots up to stay on top of her classwork. Logging on in hotel rooms and airports, she gets copies of course lectures and lab assignments, e-mails her teacher when she's stumped and even takes tests online. "You can actually focus on what you need to know rather than tracking down someone...
...take on American carmakers, who have been more intent on defining luxury in terms of bigger, badder sport-utility vehicles. Mercedes' designers and engineers, once stubborn purveyors of Teutonic practicality, are rolling out the kind of spiffy variety--from elegant sedans to sport utes--to bring it into touch with today's big-spending yet more finicky car buyer. Meanwhile, Jaguar, for the first time in more than a decade, has expanded into a new market segment with its S-Class and plans to introduce a small "Baby Jag" next year...
Smart gadgetry for safety and entertainment represents the new lap of luxury. The BMW 740i, for example, can be equipped with a navigation and traction control system that acclimates from driving on normal pavement to moving through a winter storm with the touch of a switch. Road-weary travelers might prefer GM's sophisticated stability system, which uses two-directional sensors attached to the car's suspension, steering column and brakes to keep the car on its intended course. Mercedes last year began offering near obstacle detection, which uses radar to alert drivers to objects close...
Paglia, who in a November speech at the KennedySchool of Government attacked Harvard's Departmentof Romance Languages and Literatures as being "outof touch," said she was disappointed that Yale hadhired Schor...
Jeffrey Katzenberg's motives for creating the movie The Prince of Egypt must be judged over time [COVER, Dec. 14]. Was it Katzenberg or others at Disney who had the Midas touch for creating successful animated films? Assessing the box-office appeal of Prince of Egypt is a practical way of answering that question. Perhaps Katzenberg's contribution to improved understanding of the Pentateuch would be to allocate a portion of this film's profits to subsidizing independent scholarly research into the Old Testament characters. The Prince of Egypt's expected income would hardly be dented by funding a substantial...