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...plunged earthward. That's not bad for a kid from the working-class south Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Davis learned the basics as a salesman at GE and later at the now defunct office-automation pioneer Wang Labs--one of the hottest companies of its time before being blown away by DEC and others. In 1995 he was brought in by a fledgling venture-capital company, CMGI, to run a search-engine operation called Lycos (derived by the technology's creator from the Latin name for wolf spider). Davis had $1.2 million in seed money and, as he writes...
...night as Gorman's date, called back. Says Gorman: "Alanis says, 'Listen, I have this idea. What if I gave you guys a chunk of money and we took a bunch of underprivileged kids who have never seen a Broadway musical before to come see the show?' I was blown away by her generosity." Morissette donated $150,000 to keep the production up and running for a week and purchased blocks of tickets for two children's groups. Gorman hopes the publicity surrounding her gift may help the play to hold on for a few more weeks. In other Broadway...
...Latino producers, the diversity controversy provided brief entree. To a point. Jeff Valdez, producer of Nickelodeon's The Brothers Garcia, says he began to get calls from networks that had blown him off before. "So I pitched three shows and never got a return call," he says. "Now they can say they met with a real Hispanic and move on with their business...
Besides running a smooth administration, Bush has neatly accomplished much of what he set out to do when he set out to do it. The bulk of his economic measures have blown through Congress trailing Democrats behind screaming “Time Out!” “Cheater!” and “Gore won the popular vote!” Beyond legislation, Bush has swiftly enacted significant changes in policy, much of it concerning environmental and abortion issues...
...struggle where an outrage by one side is followed by an outrage from the other. In Gaza, a four-month-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli tank shell became the youngest victim of the violence. Two Romanian immigrant workers mending a security fence at the Gaza border were blown up by Palestinians. Settlers stoned Palestinians on the roads through Gush Etzion...