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...These guys swallowed the get-big-fast mantra hook, line and sinker," says Ken Cassar, a senior analyst for Jupiter Media Metrix, a research and ratings firm. "They were too ambitious, but they couldn't have grabbed so much venture capital if they weren't. Investors were eyeing IPO riches." Not that either company was particularly frugal with the wealth Wall Street brought. Their combined bonfire consumed more than $860 million, not counting the undisclosed seven-figure sum Webvan paid the San Francisco Giants to sponsor all the cupholders at Pacific Bell Park...
...This is just another example of the Bureau?s problems with centralized record keeping. For example, in recent days reporters have been calling the FBI asking whether Chandra Levy applied for a job as a FBI analyst. Apparently, she did - there?s a paper record of her application. But there?s no computerized record. So if that paper is lost or thrown out, there?s no record at all. And if this sort of thing is happening now, in a climate where the FBI is being much more careful, imagine how bad things must have been 10 years...
Best known for telling investors in 1999 that Amazon.com stock was worth $50 three weeks before it hit $400, Cohen has been vindicated by the current bear market for tech stocks. As the top tech analyst at Merrill Lynch, he was one of the few who preached moderation in the late '90s, and eventually left, to be replaced by superbull Henry Blodget. Today Cohen, 36, is moving on to money managing at a technology hedge fund, JHC Capital Partners...
...with very different viewpoints. First, Professor Fran Stott, the Vice President and Dean of Academic Programs at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in childhood development that was founded in 1966 to educate Head Start teachers. On the other side of the issue is Krista Kafer, an Education Policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., a non-profit research institute that has historically taken a very skeptical view of Head Start programs...
...burst, and the stocks went south, and the commission-taking investment bankers seemed like the only ones who'd gotten permanently rich. Wall Street watchers felt betrayed. Congress started sniffing around. FORTUNE (corporate cousin to this publication) ran a cover with a decidedly unflattering picture of Morgan Stanley interent analyst Mary Meeker, the most spectacularly fallen of the analyst stars, above the caption "Can We Ever Trust Wall Street Again...