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...Harvard publishing so desperately demands new voices, it is all the more disappointing that this particular Voice has so overwhelmingly and embarrassingly failed to provide them. Rather than articulating a new and compelling argument for an alternative weekly, The Voice’s founders cobbled together a mishmash of Internet buzzwords, fabricated sensationalism, and promiscuous exclamation marks. Two years ago, “interactive media” had already become a hollow term mostly occurring in the province of lame venture-capital proposals. Today it is even more meaningless...
...much ownership leads to problems too. A pharmaceutical company is stymied by a web of patents and doesn't make a drug. An airport can't buy land for a new runway to ease congestion because dozens of people own slivers of property. A production house, faced with a mishmash of music-licensing rights, keeps an old sitcom from...
These moments all blend together now, as good memories tend to (though the mishmash of anecdotes is also owing in part to the euphoria and bacchanalia of Senior Spring). While I have grown less idealistic and am unsure what my cause or my crowning achievement will someday be, after four years, I finally have had my Angela Chase moment when “just being myself, and my life, like, right where I am, is, like, enough...
Clothing chaos has led many employers to simply give up. The number of companies allowing workers to dress casually every day dropped from 48% in 2004 to 37% in 2007, according to human resources trade group SHRM. And the trend has left corporate America a sartorial mishmash. At opposite ends of the spectrum are Lehman Bros., which has reinstated its daily-suit mandate, and IBM, which has tossed its famously conservative dress code altogether. Last summer the U.S. Commerce Department banned employee flip-flops. This summer Texas A&M University is urging its staff to dress "comfortably" so the school...
...barista over this new espresso machine The Verismo The old machine gives baristas less control over the steaming of milk and blocks their view of patrons Conservation International The group will certify where beans come from--one more sign that Starbucks is about coffee Cluttered counters The mishmash of stuff distracts from coffee Loyalty Free drip refills and latte extras for repeat customers Stores on every corner Unwieldy U.S. growth will slow; the company will still push ahead overseas