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...reasons that Mob stories resonate with us civilians are well rehearsed: loyalty, honor, family, bada-bing, bada-boom. Their audience--especially men--uses them as a source of secondhand machismo and Machiavellian sooth. What's curious, and a little pathetic, is that the same elements appeal to mobsters. But the movies became an attractive model for them only when real Mob life was on the skids, attacked from without by the feds, eaten from within by rats. The Godfather I and II were nostalgia movies, harking back to the glory years of a racket whose best years were behind...
...WASHINGTON POST called the glass half full in its Page One story, headlined '90S BOOM HAD BROAD IMPACT; 2000 CENSUS CITES INCOME GROWTH AMONG POOR, UPPER MIDDLE CLASS. The piece noted that the proportion of households at the low end, earning less than $15,000 a year, shrank, and the Midwest and South fared especially well in the 1990s, with income rising and poverty declining more than the national average...
...economy" companies that make and distribute the things we eat, drink, and wear. While information technology and hardware have become the worst performing sectors on the market this year - the capitalization of software companies has fallen by an average of 39% - old economy stocks have quietly lasted out the boom and bust and are now reaping the benefits. But these companies didn't emerge unchanged, notes Anthony Habgood, executive chairman of Bunzl, a paper distributor and maker of cigarette filters that moved into the FTSE 100 last week. "We took a very pragmatic view with respect...
Tech start-ups have thinned, but Silicon Valley venture capitalist Bill Tai says the ideas he sees today are more practical and better executed than the ones in the boom years when, he says, "we saw a lot of passion and energy but not a lot of depth...
Stanford benefited enormously in the 1990s from being close to Silicon Valley—just as Silicon Valley benefited from being close to Stanford. The dot-com boom made Palo Alto one of the most attractive workplaces in the country and made many local fortunes...