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...Jobs showed that locking the software to the hardware and focusing relentlessly on building a perfectly integrated system aimed at the customer, was the superior approach. He gave consumers a first-class experience and got to command premium pricing, protecting Apple's margins along the way. The iPhone is a similar story, though it's well known that having to deal with cellphone companies - giving up centrist control - rankles Jobs no end. (See pictures of the iPhone as it was introduced to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking Like Apple, Oracle Buys Sun | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...home at the Beren Tennis Center on Friday, then traveled to New Haven on Sunday to battle rival No. 64 Yale (13-8, 3-3 Ivy). Against two familiar, higher-ranked enemies, Harvard secured a pair of morale-boosting 5-2 wins.The Crimson’s class of 2009 had another task at hand on Friday: defending their turf one last time in the final home game of the season. Notching a win against the Bears on “Senior Day” had symbolic importance—co-captains Chris Clayton and Michael Kalfayan, alongside Sasha Ermakov...

Author: By Justin W. White, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Shows Grit, Honors Seniors in Wins | 4/20/2009 | See Source »

...color, and therefore saying ‘greed is the new crimson’ would be lexically similar to saying to ‘koala is the new circle’—a situation in which you are trying to include a member of a class of nouns (in my case animals) into a pre-existing class of nouns (such as shapes). Perhaps if you had refined your message into a nuanced argument comprised of phrases that made coherent sense instead of a mindless slogan, then the President and Corporation would be better able to understand and respond...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: SLAM Strikes Again | 4/18/2009 | See Source »

...admits. “I think that MIT is certainly an environment where, for a majority of students, academics are first and foremost,” he said. “Regardless of the cuts, I don’t think it will affect the decisions of the class of 2013.” But the Crimson’s Schulz and Le Buffe disagreed, saying that they believed the potential for athletic participation was an important part of the college decisions for incoming freshmen. “I’d probably really reconsider going to that school...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT To Cut Several Athletic Programs | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...Sondhi's "yellow shirts," as PAD members are known because of the color of their attire, are a movement of royalists, big businessmen and urban middle class Thais who are opposed to the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup, convicted of conflict of interest charges by Thai courts last year and is now living in self-imposed exile. Sondhi's firebrand speeches full of demagoguery rallied crowds of supporters in prolonged, occasionally violent, protests last year against Thaksin, but he has been accused by critics of stoking hatred against rural people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thai Hopes for Healing Fade After Protest Leader Shot | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

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