Word: blues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every Widener wussie knows the red line on the floor leads deep down to Pusey and the yellow stripe lights the way to Lamont. But now, without warning: a third line. Blue. The cocky and new-looking line begs two questions--why and where does it go? Barbara A. Mitchell, head of Access Services in Widener Library, spilled the beans on new blue: It's only temporary. The on-going Widener construction has blocked an exit and the blue line will take after-hours bookworms out of the library via the backroads--through the Staff Lounge (which Mitchell reminds...
According to most accounts, the event was Dramatic. Epic. Heroic. Our boys in red, white and blue persevered through sand and rough. Justin Leonard's 45-foot Shot Heard Round the World was a thundering triumph for democracy. Our NATO allies were sent home empty-handed...
...Alto VC firm. Chin handles the firm's portfolio of seven Internet companies and scours the Valley for others to fund. It's a frenetic job, but Chin crackles with rapid-fire energy. "We're going for the early-stage, high-risk, big hits," he says, piloting his midnight-blue Mercedes down I-280 on a recent Wednesday. "When I evaluate start-ups I ask, 'Is this a multibillion-dollar market? Can this be a billion-dollar company?' We want companies that can be industry leaders...
Kaushik soon landed a job at Oracle, one of the Valley's blue-chip firms. Two years later, he quit to take a job at a hot start-up called CrossWorlds Software. Had he stayed at Oracle, "I would have made a lot of money. Not multimillions, but not pocket change either." Kaushik left CrossWorlds after a year--the company has yet to have its IPO--to start his own dot.com with three friends. "I thought starting my own company would complete my contribution to the world and my profession," he says. But after three months of trying to raise...
...like a freight train coming. Then it sounded like a jet going past, as it hit me in the back like a 20-lb. sledgehammer. The waves were like five-story buildings--light green, with whitecaps on top. As they broke over me, it all turned a real royal blue, a real pretty, beautiful blue because of the light shining through...