Word: briefed
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...tipped as a tussle for gold between France and Australia: Arnaud Tournant and Shane Kelly in the men's 1-km time trial; Felicia Ballanger and Michelle Ferris in the women's 500-meter time trial. For Kelly the crowd wanted more than Olympic glory; after his tragically brief showing at Atlanta, where his foot slipped from the pedal, they wanted to cheer him to gold. After being placed on the track with his shoes already attached to the pedals, Kelly started smoothly, but came home to a bronze medal in a time of 1 minutes 2.818 seconds...
...faux Adams will be piped into the White House by the Army's fife and drums. Historian David McCullough, who is finishing a book on the difficult relationship between Adams and Thomas Jefferson, will deliver a brief address on the meaning of the moment. If President Bill Clinton is not out campaigning, he will add remarks for any and all citizens who want to stop by and listen from the front lawn and Lafayette Park, just like they did two centuries...
What's going wrong? Part of the problem is that the audience just isn't there yet. Even brief online movies require hefty broadband connections such as a cable modem or a DSL. Most of us are still chugging along on 56-K modems, and would rather watch TV than wait half an hour for a jerky postage stamp-size short to load. So until broadband goes mainstream, online entertainment networks have the near impossible task of building a brand in a near vacuum while burning as little cash as possible. "It's like Survivor," says Kevin Wendle, co-founder...
...anyone was going to be the Richard Hatch of this cyber-movie island, you'd expect it to be the DreamWorks-Howard ticket. But Pop fizzled as if it didn't have the will to live: the site issued only three press releases in its brief life and delayed the launch so often it became an industry joke. Out of the $50 million purse promised them by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, it spent a paltry $7 million--barely a long liquid lunch by Silicon Valley standards...
Last May, President Neil L. Rudenstine announced that he would resign from his post at the University in June 2001. Rudenstine's tenure at the University has been as exceptionally brief as it has been productive; after just one decade he has exceeded the overall fundraising goals for the University's capital campaign, bringing our endowment to an impressive $14.4 billion. Rudenstine was a president with a mission and he knew to step down once he had met his objectives for the University...