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...question is not whether any leader isgoing to offend people but the quantum of offense.I don't think with [Cash] it's any greater thanthe norm," the professor added...
...MASTERPIECE IN the world of journalism, the special issue on Cyberspace [Spring 1995]. Your sense of a subject sorely desired and needed by the people was a work of right-on thinking. My understanding of what is going on in the computer cyber, superhighway world took a quantum leap. Efforts thus far to explain the complicated subject, vis-a-vis bits and pieces, at times confused me even further...
...patrons seem to mysteriously choose orange as an alternative. A woman with blue hair in an orange Guttermouth t-shirt reads some book about alchemy. A pack of men in makeup hovers by the register. We argue over whether the student at the next table is busy reinventing quantum physics or whether he's just stuck on Matter in the Universe homework sheet #5. A covey of high school nose-piercers play with their napkins. A couple discusses a table full of brochures that sport the words "Black Bread" above an oddly cropped photo of a naked...
Third, and most important, the Core is cool because we do learn many cool things. After taking Core courses, a math person can feel justified commenting on Shakespeare with English majors, and Gov jocks can bravely discuss concepts like quantum dynamics with future physicists. Now that we all have this shared knowledge, we make more friends than we otherwise would. Just think: a pre-med meets a pre-law for the first time, and it is only natural that they do not give a damn about each other's field. Then what can they talk about, besides "what's your...
...timing was uncanny: soon after Scala and Jingozian created their New York City-based firm, Treasury Resources Consulting and Investigations, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates and sent the value of many derivatives plunging. Their phone has hardly stopped ringing. Says Jingozian: "The entire derivatives market has taken a quantum leap in complexity and sophistication. As a result, the ability of senior management and the back office to understand it has become more difficult...