Word: weekends
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David and Harvey were approached to be part of a photo essay in the Christian Science Monitor. The piece was intended to show a typical weekend in the Ivy League. But confronted with this challenge, the duo decided they would be anything but typical...
Maybe Harvard should learn from what Brown did this weekend: to ensure victory against Cornell, build a 36-point lead before halftime...
...Palestinians a day for the past 26 days. Now Arafat, too, has an opportunity to shore up his credentials on the seething Palestinian streets, which had grown openly hostile to his peacemaking efforts in recent weeks. That's a game the Arab League states are playing, too, using their weekend summit to appease their enraged citizenry with ritual denunciations of Israel and promises of $1 billion in aid to the Palestinians, but stopping short of breaking off any existing diplomatic or economic ties with Israel...
...Israeli leaders also began informing the media over the weekend of plans to unilaterally disengage from the Palestinians by fencing off the West Bank and Gaza and building a closed, fortified border. But while the unilateral divorce option may have a visceral appeal to Israelis shocked by the recent violence, it doesn't fly easily as a geopolitical option. The point of making peace with the Palestinians was to be able to withdraw from the West Bank on the basis of agreements preventing the territory becoming a base for hostility against the Jewish state along its most vulnerable flank...
...with de-glomeration - the government took the hammer to them in 1984, and the company spun off Lucent and shed NCR in 1996. (And the track record is a bit frightening: Lucent has gone from $79 to $22 inside of a year, issued three - three! - profit warnings and this weekend fired its CEO.) The idea is to keep the company nimble in a shifting-sands technological landscape by letting each division act on its own, pursuing its own innovations, deals and profitability...