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...like any of them) until recently seemed to place him well outside the Canadian mainstream. Why the turnabout? Because Canada is having a nationwide attack of virtue. Corruption scandals have steadily eroded the government's grip on power - in direct proportion to its impressive longevity. Canada, famous for hockey, waggish comedians and an unforgiving Arctic climate, is also home to one of the world's longest-ruling political parties. Canada's Liberals have reigned over the landmass stretching from the 49th parallel to the Arctic Ocean since 1993. In fact, the Liberals have held nearly unbroken power for most...
...Intel found itself confronted with in 2004. The LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) chip for high-definition TVs, a pet project of Otellini's that (as president and COO) he had announced with much fanfare in January 2004, was abandoned in November when the cost of production became prohibitive. Waggish engineers made a disco ball out of defunct LCOS chips for Intel's holiday party. The company also blundered on its pricing of flash-memory chips, the kind found in cameras and the smallest of MP3 players; in both flash memory and chips for servers, Intel found itself losing ground...
Updike also contended with a series of exploits by waggish Crimson editors that culminated in the nighttime theft of the Lampoon’s prized ibis statue from atop the building [See full story...
...Benjamin I. Rapoport ’03 amuses by cartooning drolly exceptional figures governmental, Harvardian, iconic, jazzy, kitchily lame. Measuredly nutty, often politically quirky, Rapoport’s style teases unceasingly, voicing waggish, xyzlacatotic*, yowling zanyisms...
...first she helped staff members cull their files to decide what should be consigned to the wastebasket and what saved. Anything of historical interest went to the fledgling archives: Henry Luce's 1922 plans for the launch of TIME; March of Time radio transcripts; files from waggish Fortune editor and publisher Eric Hodgins, author of the best seller Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("He didn't write a memo to his secretary that wasn't hysterical," says Felsher...