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Stanford benefited enormously in the 1990s from being close to Silicon Valley—just as Silicon Valley benefited from being close to Stanford. The dot-com boom made Palo Alto one of the most attractive workplaces in the country and made many local fortunes...

Author: By Nalina Sombuntham, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Kid on the Block | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...Cannes' Asian spirit been broken? Like a dot-com stock, the cachet of Chinese, Japanese and Korean films soared through the '90s. What was once a nonentity became a new wave. Asia had it all: a rigorous art-film movement and?in Hong Kong action films, Indian musicals and Korean romances?a vigorous populist streak. Inevitably, these achievements produced high expectations. Now Asian films are judged by the strictest standards: the ones they set for themselves. So Asia takes a brief break from trendiness, as Cannes discovers new "hot" cinemas in Latin America and the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cannes Kiss Off | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...year ($109 online). Carol Levenson's Gimme Credit, a newsletter based in Chicago, focuses on bonds but offers first-rate analysis that stock investors use too. It costs $18,000 a year. There's also good research available at sites like cbs.marketwatch.com thomsonfn.com cnbc.com quicken.com smartmoney.com and www.wallstreetcity. com. These websites require a little more of your own analysis. But if you're going to venture onto this lot, you'd better be ready to kick some tires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whom Can You Trust? | 5/20/2002 | See Source »

...Seoul's secrets are out, big time. Sony's Columbia TriStar Films recently agreed to fund a South Korean production com-pany's movie about the hit squad ordered to kill Kim Il Sung. (Filming will start this August.) Hewing closely to the original story, the movie will expose a part of history that most Koreans know little about. Under past military governments, it was taboo to mention the spy operations, says producer Jonathan Kim: "We were taught we didn't do stuff like that, only the North did. Nobody has talked about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea's Dirty Dozen | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

...major campaign donors under 30 has something to do with politicians’ willingness to disregard the opinions of twenty-somethings. Unfortunately, but unsurprisingly, this disregard reinforces the apathy among college-age potential voters. Young people have exploded into national prominence in the last decade as entrepreneurs, dot-com millionaires, pop stars and community activists. The ’90s recognized the power of youth to change social and economic culture. The current decade must witness a corresponding expansion in the political influence of the young. Young people must remember the power of law to improve social conditions...

Author: By Julia G. Kiechel, | Title: Targeting the Millennial Generation | 5/8/2002 | See Source »

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