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...important lesson, because Dell isn't likely to produce many next hot things. The company, which spends a mere 1.5% of its $38 billion in revenue on research, isn't concerned with being innovative, says John Hamlin, general manager of Dell's U.S. consumer business. "We're not first," he says. "We just do it better. We're not embarrassed to admit it. We've come out of nowhere to be the No. 3 consumer brand in the U.S. in less than five years, while Coca-Cola has been doing it for 100 years." Of course, adds Hamlin...
...much bigger? At the '87 Cup, France and Australia played a semifinal that is widely regarded as among the best matches ever played, with France winning with a majestic try at the death. The venue for that match was the modest Concord Oval in suburban Sydney, and a mere 17,000 people were there to see it. Five times that number will pay to see the equivalent match at this Cup, not least because they recognize that the standard of rugby has soared. "So many countries are strong this time," says Reuben Thorne, captain of New Zealand's mighty...
...least when Larry Flynt comes to speak at Harvard, he does so under the banner of pop culture, not academia. Ms. Adams is not a credible academic and her mere appearance at Harvard denigrates the university. At least in this sense, it is pleasing to see that Ms. Adams is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and not of one of Harvard’s. Even if the Quincy co-master has erred in giving Ms. Adams’ an intellectual pedestal to speak, at least we are spared the embarrassment of having produced a graduate capable of such drivel...
...least when Larry Flynt comes to speak at Harvard, he does so under the banner of pop culture, not academia. Ms. Adams is not a credible academic and her mere appearance at Harvard denigrates the university. At least in this sense, it is pleasing to see that Ms. Adams is a graduate of Yale Divinity School and not of one of Harvard’s. Even if the Quincy co-master has erred in giving Ms. Adams’ an intellectual pedestal to speak, at least we are spared the embarrassment of having produced a graduate capable of such drivel...
...though scolding a spineless Democratic Party when lamenting that “the best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Eventually, the mystical poem goes farther than we would. When Yeats’ millennial vision warns that “mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,” one suspects that the poem’s aptitude for our age has ended. Yet speeches and articles have been using even this line in earnest; one post-9/11 commencement speaker, citing it, noted that “We know...