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...first two years were spent persuading advertisers to take a flyer. Typically, IndiaWorld managed to grow handily in terms of hits while its profit last year was an imperceptible $58,000. But IndiaWorld earned buzz, and Jain suddenly found himself courted by angel investors, foreign venture capitalists and banks eager to lend. In the end, he decided to get out of the game entirely by selling to Satyam Infoway, one of the largest Internet service providers in India, which doesn't allow foreign competition in the field. "We already have a substantial audience in India," says chief executive R. Ramaraj...
...build audiences with mall appearances. Says Aguilera's manager, Steve Kurtz: "There's no way to fake it in a small room with these major players listening." She also turned down concert gigs with 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys in favor of the all-female Lilith Fair. The buzz grew...
...reaction to Damon, and the fad of self-exalting anti-whiteness that enabled it, is legitimated by policies that discriminate on the basis of race. I do not intend to imply that affirmative action caused the emcee buzz. But laws inevitably induce dispositions in the citizenry. Dispositions create a certain moral milieu, and that moral milieu gives rise to action. If, as a University and as a country, we wish to inculcate dispositions of racial harmony and toleration, then we should start by rejecting today's implicit then we should start by rejecting the today's civil rights ferment...
...DeWolfe 38 with Thandi and Val, and I usually do that until 11, and then after that, I'll meet my friends from B.U. and then go clubbing. I usually go clubbing two or three times a week. I like Avalon and Axis. My favorite club is Buzz, downtown in the Theater District. Saturday night is a big night there--we usually don't get home until 7 in the morning...
...high-tech style with a new line of personal communicators. Hasbro's Talkin'acha ($30 in August) is a handheld-size mini-recorder that lets kids create voice messages as long as 8 sec. and pass them to similarly equipped friends three ways: through removable "buzz cards," by holding up two communicators together or simply by touching each other on the arm. Shown here is Girl Tech's Laser Chat ($15 this spring), which can record a message and send it wirelessly as far away as 35 ft. For more advanced messaging, Tiger's Lightning Mail ($60 in September) comes...