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Appreciation Even in today's celebrity culture, there are few people whose medical updates lead to newspaper billboards being changed. In late October, I watched the news vendor tear off FINAL VIGIL FOR BEST and replace it with GEORGE RALLIES. GEORGE BEST, whose genius on the soccer field?combined with his antics off it?made him a modern icon, held on that day. But last Friday he lost the final round to multiple organ failure after complications triggered by a lung infection, aged 59. Even generations unborn when he worked his soccer magic lamented the loss of a great sporting...
...that she has received her last paycheck from her former job as an administrative assistant at New Orleans' Dillard University, Carmelita is looking for new work. So far, openings for a hot-dog vendor or truck driver have not been too appealing. Carmelita and Nathaniel like to imagine that in three to five years, they may be able to return to New Orleans. Their neighborhood of Pontchartrain Park, the first African-American subdivision in the city, was so wrecked that whatever is left is slated to be reduced to rubble. Carmelita is sad that it will be lost to history...
...marketing? One wonders whether regulating, taxing, or otherwise using the force of government to impede Cisco’s participation in these schemes would have any impact on the ultimate outcome—Cisco might just move its operations to a different country, or China might find another vendor. Then we’d be hurting our own industrial growth without obtaining any measurable benefit for the important problem at hand.We can, however, make this cooperation expensive to companies in other ways: we can give them bad PR, for example, by writing blog posts and newspaper columns about what they?...
...created so that it could be adapted,” adding that Harvard’s ultimate goal is to make an even wider range of funding opportunities available on the site. She added that the website’s search function is similar to that of online vendor Amazon.com. When users perform a search, Amazon not only spits out a list of results but offers suggestions based on previous buyers’ preferences. Maramaldi said the new site is “user-friendly and straightforward,” and that it aims to provide a broad range...
...name Yagan is synonymous with entrepreneurship at Harvard. Current Currierite Daniel F. Yagan ’06 is one of the founders of Redline Textbooks, an online textbook vendor with a loyal following among Harvard’s budget-conscious students. Yagan recently diversified Redline’s textbook offerings and expanded its stock. His older brother, however, has been less fortunate. Sam A. Yagan ’99, president of MetaMachine, the company that distributes the peer-to-peer program eDonkey, announced at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearing on Sept. 28 that his company would “convert...