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...mere ten minute walk away, there is an antidote for HUDS-dulled taste buds: Christina’s Spice and Specialty Shop. As soon as one walks through the door, hallucinogenic wafts of star anise and cardamom replace the Mass. Ave. car exhaust. The 80-plus varieties of spices often find their way into the ice cream made in its adjacent sister shop, in the much-touted Christina’s Ice Cream. Aside from the wide array of whole and ground spices available, Christina’s also stocks dried fruits and vegetables. Go for the dried morel mushrooms?...
...religiously ambivalent Harvard student, there’s still more to frighten. PHC’s students are exerting an immense influence in Washington circles. Out of the 100 interns working for the White House this semester, The New York Times reported, seven hailed from PHC, which has a mere 240-member student body. Their politics might help them win the jobs, but their SAT marks (a school average of 1320, significantly higher for such interns) are nothing to scoff...
...unknown whether government agencies (as opposed to political parties) will bite on PHC’s attempt at vocational intelligence training. But beyond the possibility of conservative-trained students taking over many of those government jobs appointed by right-wingers, PHC’s success speaks for itself. A mere seven years old, it has managed to make good on a promise to remain debt-free (in accordance with biblical teachings, the college’s president explains) and not to take any government funding (whether federal bureaucrats would give any to PHC is another question). More than that, whereas...
...Dell Inc. has given rivals, even storming past HP (see below), by rewriting some sacred tech-industry rules. Instead of innovating, Dell bet that customers would prefer the low price of standardized machines. By dealing direct, the company could build to order while paring inventory (now down to a mere three days). The boyish CEO will hand over day-to-day duties to his No. 2, Kevin Rollins, in July but will still be thinking of new ways to scare his competitors. "He's rare in the tech industry," says UBS Securities IT analyst Ben Reitzes. "He gets...
...Whitman, 47, is not just the genial host at this giant party, picking up a fee for each listing and a small percentage of each sale. She's also the quiet giant of the Internet world, one of a mere handful of Silicon Valley CEOs who survived the dotcom bubble with her reputation unscathed. A business veteran, she cut her teeth in the top echelons of Disney, Hasbro and Procter & Gamble, resurrecting failing brands like Keds shoes and FTD florists. When she was offered her current job in 1998, Whitman was highly skeptical. Why leave everything she had built...