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...sales growth--but still without earnings. And Broadcast.com which streams music and video over the Net, blew from 18 to 61 in its first six days of trading through last Friday, also with zero earnings. If you invest now, will you play the trend or get played for a chump...
...their town of 130,000 still wanted low fees and personal service. Despite its bare-bones operation--it started without drive-up tellers or ATMs--Anderson Community Bank attained its five-year goal of $39 million in assets after just 18 months and today holds $67 million. That's chump change to the likes of NationsBank. But Anderson Community's owners are content. And so are customers like Woschitz...
...Chump or Champ: Why is Hillary Standing by Her Man?" This was the theme of a committee discussion held at the Institute of Politics (IOP), audaciously termed a debate by the Harvard Political Union (News, Feb. 4). Amid the worn jokes and vacuous slogans, several people of more noble and gracious intent than me tried bravely to provoke an intelligent discussion of the budding scandal in Washington. Sadly, they were doomed by the near-comic choice of topic...
...most people more often than not feel neglected by those on either side of the canyon. Various institutions are capable of bridging the gap in socially beneficial ways--universities, for example. As a prominent university political organization, the IOP ought to give more thought to its role on campus. Chump or champ: will the IOP degenerate into club for self-affected future senators and celebrity journalists, or will it remain a forum for the exchange of meaningful ideas? ERRON W. TITUS...
...campaign centers on a $450,000 advance that Chubais and four colleagues split between them for a book on privatization. The book payment, Chubais' enemies allege, is a disguised bribe. Chubais' defense has been slow and largely unconvincing. His share, $90,000, is chump change in a country in which a few years ago the new Prime Minister found that Russia's entire foreign-currency reserve was missing, and in which the oligarchs have become overnight billionaires in shadowy privatization deals. But it was enough to shatter Chubais' image of probity. His enemies are putting out the word that they...