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...valid reason, to be sure. But maybe the scaled-back nature of the show means more than that. Perhaps Apple is tentatively reaching the conclusion that it doesn't matter how much hoopla gets thrown up around a product: it will rise and fall on its own merits. The G4 cube and the G4 titanium Powerbook were launched with equal mystery and equal fanfare, six months apart. Both looked eminently cool when Jobs pulled back the veil. Yet the cube tanked tremendously, tearing a huge hole in Apple's year 2000 profits, while the Powerbook sold like lemonade during...
...thrown here twice in high school, four times in college, so this was my last chance to win here,” Clever said. “I’m from Penn, so I’m glad to win of my last opportunity...
Once, it seemed, the focus of media was education—imparting facts, perhaps with a bit of ideology thrown in. These days, it seems, the media’s favored gaze turns to the mirror. Websites report on TV coverage, magazines report on the Internet and newspapers review television. Put otherwise, what was a well-meaning system of internal self-awareness has grown before our very eyes into the media’s sustained, unilateral conversation with itself...
...thrown back to the days of negotiating for a later curfew when my mother pronounces that my groom David and I should make an early grand exit from the wedding. We suggest we just might want to stay out late at our wedding and have fun with our friends. Six months ago my mother and I rehashed a seventh-grade Guess jeans drama when I assured her that all brides are wearing strapless dresses and it is not inappropriate. I actually seem to be getting worse at this. The outcomes? In 1986, age 12, yes to the jeans...
...first-year resident of Mass. Hall was allegedly assaulted by a dining hall worker as the student tried to enter his entryway during Wednesday night's rally, and police also received reports of bottles and water balloons being thrown...