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...opening stores, Dell is acknowledging that retailers are in a better position to address the increasing number of consumers who view computers as an entertainment purchase. Walk down the aisle of your local Best Buy, and you will see that desktop screens are as likely to display Sid Meier's Civilization as H&R Block's TaxCut. "It's not just a PC anymore. I'm connecting this box to the rest of my life," says Michael Vitelli, senior vice president of consumer electronics. "Dell made its money when the computer was a static box. People want...
...possibility that doesn't exist is the ability to walk out of the store with a computer. The new stores won't carry inventory, so consumers will have to wait a few days for delivery. That lowers operating costs, but Vitelli says the impatience of the gotta-have-it-now mall shopper is not on Dell's side: "Are you going to go to the restaurant, look at the menu and say, 'That's great. Send me the meal in 10 days...
...rock concerts that often - the show is about theater as much as music. And attitude. I was happy to see, at least, that the attitude was less off-putting than the last time I saw Madonna (in her concert tour before last, I think), when she basically walked out and said, 'F--- you, New York!" Now she's doing video montages on starving kids in Africa, projecting stats on the number of children dying of AIDS and flashing the websites of organizations that are helping. "The world is full of people who talk the talk," she said. "But how many...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The final test was a mile walk. After racing to perform as many crunches in two minutes as possible, I couldn’t understand why it wasn’t a run that rounded out Harvard athletics’ “Operation: Summer Fitness” preliminary test.Little did the Hemenway staffers know, after three years of running late to class (including two all the way from distant Mather House) I had become a professional speed-walker and de facto captain of the Olympic tourist-dodging team. Although some Fabio from Harvard...
...strangling her with one hand.”In cases of alleged domestic abuse, The Crimson’s policy is to refrain from printing victims’ names.After witnesses yelled for Thomas to stop, he let go and the victim fell to the floor.As he turned to walk away, according to witnesses mentioned in the police report, “he suddenly lifted her and drove his knee into her chest.”The witnesses then took the victim to an adjoining room, locked the door and called HUPD. Thomas was again passed out at the desk...