August 11, 2008
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IIn Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, the character of Miss Havisham lives a life stopped in time by her cancelled wedding. Floating around her house in a tattered wedding dress, with a marital feast decomposing on the table, she pretends that life never changed. Miss Havisham may well be the model for companies that launched quixotic, failed bids to take over rivals. The executives of those companies –Microsoft Corp. and Blockbuster Inc. – have, in the wake of their disappointment, painted
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