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There are more than 1,000 start-ups--referred to these days as Web 2.0 companies--using a new set of tools to quickly and cheaply create sites and services that would have taken years--and millions--to build in the '90s. Many are communities for sharing links, photos and videos. Others focus on music, travel or online software. One challenge is knowing when to sell. MySpace was sold last year to News Corp. for $580 million, a figure a MySpace founder who no longer had control of the company recently called "one of the largest merger-and-acquisition scandals...
...Change.” Other highlights include “Nausea,” built on a raw acoustic guitar and bass riff, with Beck doing his best Brit-pop vocal imitation. “Strange Apparition” is loveable piano-driven ’90s pop with a nice half-time breakdown at the end of the track...
...shot. Can one be a shot? It was one of [Alan Bennett’s] pieces from the mid-90s for British television...I played a park attendant with pedophilic tendencies. It was a really powerful piece...
Both authors were top aides in the Clinton White House, and there is absolutely no end to the praise they give themselves and President Clinton, largely focusing on the level of compromise and inclusion that the Democratic Party came to represent in the 90s. Their philosophy is simple, and you can sum it up in the title of an article Reed wrote this summer: “Go Back to What Works—Be Like Bill...
...school's grade-capping policy, the Daily Princetonian reports, in the wake of a survey that found most students aren't happy with the change. Alex Lenahan says, wait a minute, what if there never was any grade inflation at Princeton? He points to a report from the late 90s that found an increase in "academic 1's and 2's," admissions-speak for the most intelligent students, enrolling at the school. It's a substantial increase: Academic 1's jumped 21 percent between the classes of 1993 and 2002. Ergo, the 11-percent rise in A-range grades over...