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...chapter in the history of a company that has come to symbolize the classic American nerds-to-riches story. Founded by college dropouts Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs in 1976, Apple scored its biggest breakthrough with the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, which popularized the mouse as well as a point-and-click menu system. The Macintosh attracted millions of converts who realized for the first time that computers might represent not Big Brother or Big Blue but just the opposite: personal empowerment...
Anticipation buoys these sweepstakes-hardened pros as they embark on yet another chapter in their eternal quest for the perfect "face at the door," one that can be videotaped for use in the company's ubiquitous television commercials. Raw emotion sells, and Prize Patrol members consider themselves connoisseurs of screams and tears. The all-time champion is Emma Taylor of Gary, Indiana, whose joyful if repetitive response to being declared a winner earned her the nickname "the thank-you-Jesus lady...
...This chapter in the Harvard-Washington saga brings good news for the Kennedy School and Harvard as a whole. Students can again look forward to Nye's illumination of international conflict; he has indicated that he may resume teaching after becoming accustomed to his new job. Perhaps after a similar period of adjustment Ellwood, who wrote landmark papers on poverty with Mary Jo Bane, will again contribute one of his charismatic guest lectures to Ec 10 or offer a course in the economics department...
...concerned that he does not have a full understanding of what it means to have the right to choose," said Toni K. Troop, president of Boston chapter of NOW. She said the organization was also concerned about Fried's views on issues of violence, access to legal services, health care, civil rights and women's rights issues...
Other groups such as the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Women's Bar Association and the Cambridge Tenants Union also opposed Fried's confirmation...