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...certainly fun while it lasted. Terry Semel's six-year ride atop Yahoo! juiced up the company's annual revenue nine-fold and added $30 billion to its net worth. As Yahoo rose under his watch, AOL sank. But when you compete against the godzilla that is Google, even modest slip-ups can cost you a job. A sliding stock doesn't sit well, and second place in the Web world isn't good enough...
...loss of a bright and positive member of the Institute community,” said Kirk D. Kolenbrander, vice president for Institute affairs. According to The Tech, MIT’s student newspaper, Barclay’s last communication was an away message that he had left on his AOL Instant Messenger account, which read, “I have to meet with some sketchy people I thought I’d never have to deal with ever again in east Cambridge.” Barclay’s mother, Susan Kayton, told the Globe that she thought that Barclay...
...academic year, English professor Lucinda Roy told campus police that she was worried about Cho's bizarre writings. We don't know exactly what Cho wrote that concerned Roy - the university is, shamefully, withholding that information - but we do know, thanks to a former classmate who works at AOL, that Cho wrote two plays strongly suggesting that he might have been raped when he was a boy and that he had intense revenge fantasies. ("Must kill Dick. Must kill Dick. Dick must die," the protagonist in one play says...
...achingly bad plays Cho authored - they were posted by AOL yesterday - he suggests he may have been sexually abused. In both plays, a schoolboy named John accuses authority figures of molesting him. In a play Cho titled Mr. Brownstone, John says the eponymous teacher raped him. "I wanna kill him," John says. In the other play, Richard McBeef, the accused molester kills John with his bare hands...
...AOL employee who says he is a former classmate of Cho's provided AOL News with copies of two plays Cho wrote. They are achingly bad, the writings of a troubled young man; they suggest that Cho may have been sexually abused. In both plays, a schoolboy named John says he has been molested - in one case by his stepfather and, in a play Cho titled Mr. Brownstone, by the eponymous teacher. The John character in both plays repeatedly wishes his tormentor dead, although the molester in the play Richard McBeef kills John with his bare hands...