S-max and Andrew.BAS's business venture was barely an
hour old and already the high-tech startup in the former
fraternity house was rocked by managerial disaccord. The
trouble started when the clamorous S-max announced that
he planned to be vice president of research and development.

     "But I wanted to be vice president of research and
development," his heartsick partner protested.

     "You can be the vice president of marketing," the
computer builder offered magnanimously.  He was stretched
across the ratty flowered couch he referred to as his "R and
D couch," grunting and flipping through a magazine for
entrepreneurs.  Heaped around him were enough crumpled
electrical schematics to rewire Buffalo.

     "But I don't want to be the vice president of
marketing," moaned Andrew.BAS, pacing the floor tensely, his
cherubic eyes woefully downcast.  "I'm a software engineer.
I want to be the vice president of research."