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After the leak of confidential 2002 survey results placing Harvard student satisfaction near the bottom of a group of elite institutions, the administration found itself on the defensive again, following two months marked by controversy over University President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on women in science...
...confidential internal memo, revealing Harvard’s finish at fifth from the bottom in the 2002 survey of the 31 colleges comprising the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, is especially significant because it compares Harvard’s social and academic performance to its closest competitors...
...enabled laptops. For wi-fi capability, all you really need is the Pentium M, the chip at the heart of Centrino, but Otellini wanted to sell a bundle of chips along with it that would help maintain a laptop's battery life (not to mention Intel's bottom line). Against the wishes of his engineers, Otellini held back the launch of Centrino until the full chip set was ready. The plan worked. Intel has sold more than $5 billion worth of Centrino chips around the world, helping the company hit a record $34.2 billion in revenue...
...those who find likeability too much of a stretch, Sanders advises that at the very least they should strive to be polite. The basic rules are pretty, well, basic: No screaming, hanging up phones, slamming doors and expressing biting sarcasm. The bottom line for really slow learners: "Just be quiet and stop being so unfriendly...
...EVERYTHING'S O.K. NOW, RIGHT? Nope. The bottom line is that many of the causes of the intelligence breakdown in Iraq persist and "are still all too common" in U.S. espionage. They include a "poorly coordinated" bureaucracy that failed to question key information from an Iraqi defector who was a "fabricator" known as Curveball. Even today the U.S. "knows disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors," notably Iran and North Korea...