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...benefited from them. He writes that because his race was one of the factors that got him a doctoral fellowship at Stanford, "I was never able to be as proud of getting into Stanford as my [nonblack] classmates could be." But he didn't turn down the fellowship. Instead, he wants to spare future generations of blacks such anguish by immediately abolishing affirmative action, thereby bestowing on them "the gift" of competing as equals...
Here's how the revolution started: average investors began to go online instead of using traditional brokers. Now there's a new front: a few of these average investors are taking a role in selecting the stocks in their mutual funds, assuming a duty once left to professionals. This new breed of lay analysts is cropping up far away from Wall Street. Kathy Dimler is a perfect example. The Fairport, N.Y., mother of two culls financial information from magazines, websites and television, even following the ticker on her computer while she makes lunch for her sons Alex, 3, and Mark...
Take, for instance, the new voice portals. These are being billed as the equivalent of Web portals--those gateway, one-site-fits-all Web addresses like Yahoo, Excite and Snap. Instead of sitting at a computer and tapping websites that serve as hubs for news, weather and sports updates, with voice portals you can request info over the phone...
...repeat commands again and again--turned out to be the first of many problems. More annoying was mastering each service's navigation system. For example, I couldn't just dial up Tellme and say, "Give me the name of a good drama playing at my local theater." Instead, I had to say "movies" (pause), "Upper West Side" (pause), "drama" (pause). Then, after listening to a long list of films, I had to bark out more commands to get show times. Speaking like a robot and getting lost in a verbal maze was so annoying I was forced more than once...
...more surprising to find him later teaching a gymnastics class for the disabled, whom he identifies with because of his attention-deficit disorder. The unwritten rule of TV's teen portrayals is that they must be cautionary tales, all sex and guns and social decay. Cutler set out instead to capture a poignant crossroads--"when you're a kid, rushing to grow up, and an adult, hanging on to the last vestiges of childhood." High dares, subversively, to find decency in its children of suburban comfort, from Morgan to soulful jock Robby to Kaytee, a winsome songwriter with a defensive...