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This column wings its way to you from the smog of LA, where the vast and terrifying trade show known as E3 is about to begin...
...seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists—at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous—that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with or even understand; we are too small and too afraid.” Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages...
...Unlike Fuji, which views the Net as just another outlet for its retailers, Kodak is making a concerted effort to grab online photo consumers. To Kodak's eye, info imaging, as it has dubbed the digital space, remains more of an opportunity than threat, representing a vast market worth $225 billion, catering to everyone from real estate brokers to doctors who want to incorporate digital photos into their work. "Images," says Patricia Russo, a former Lucent executive who has just joined Kodak as its president, "are the most powerful form of communication...
...most of the items considered, the vast majority of hospitals are placed into the best or second best group. Moreover, several areas evaluated concern documentation standards—essentially, how efficiently an organization generates voluminous documents explaining what its procedures, groups them into pretty binders and distributes them at the beginning of every year to be promptly filed and forgotten...
...pizza-box signs in the Yard proclaiming students’ love for him—now departs a College in which he has seen as remote, in which student protesters launch their anger at him, Harvard’s most visible leader. At a University whose reach is so vast and whose population so large, connecting with students—once his forte—became an impossibility...