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...course, has had no such problem. Ever since Case fought off the awful negative publicity surrounding the late 1996 fiasco in which customers couldn't access the overburdened servers, the company has been rocketing from one success to another. The number of AOL zillionaires has multiplied with each upward ratchet of the stock price, and the atmosphere in Dulles sometimes feels like it's ready to combust. The unnamed Time Warner executive who told the New York Times that merging the cultures would be easy because the AOL people are laid-back "latte drinkers" would do well to re-examine...
Often the reasons have to do with professional advancement. An unknown writer with no other means of getting noticed will attack someone to climb upward. Not long ago, a fellow wrote an ambitious op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal attacking me as the worst writer in history. (I shall try to improve.) But even important writers will attack for success. James Baldwin admitted that he felt he had to "kill" Richard Wright in an essay, to supplant...
...voice to be as unreliable as your Web connection? Cisco swears it has closed the gap and made its IP networks as reliable as voice networks. What would help, Cisco believes, is for consumers to come to believe in the Cisco brand to the point where they are exerting upward pressure on telephone companies and service providers to run Cisco networks. In other words, for Cisco to be able to apply a two-way squeeze from the corporate side and the consumer side so that your phone company will have no choice but to go with Cisco. "Name recognition...
With Delaney-Smith earning her 150th career victory last Friday against Dartmouth, the Crimson seems to be on an upward swing, silencing preseason naysayers who had predicted a fourth-place finish in the league for Harvard...
...reopen for a generation, Eleanor could see that there had been a change of consciousness that would mean no turning back. She talked to G.I.s who were going to college on Roosevelt's G.I. Bill of Rights, the remarkable piece of legislation that opened the door to the upward mobility of an entire generation. A social revolution had taken place; a new economic order had come into being; a vast middle class had been born...