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Internet stocks have defied convention and gravity for the better part of two years. Never mind that to these outfits, profit is mostly a concept. They had cool products, hip clients, catchy names, irreverent ads, promise--lots of promise--and more. They had panache. They were cocktail chatter, and their stocks (and stockholders) were giddy. The money-losing online bookseller Amazon.com long ago blew past venerable Sears in terms of market value. At the time, investors gasped and marveled. They kept buying, but at least they noticed. By April, though, Amazon's worth was fast approaching that of Sears...
...Leadership Gift Committee (LGC) is far from improper under College rules, but it is not publicly advertised and appears nowhere in the training materials for senior gift solicitors. It is, however, open to anyone--along with the cocktail party in New York which it offers as a reward for a $250 gift...
...main reward offered for a $250 gift is a cocktail party in New York City, at which the large-money donors are able to partake in schmoozing and imbibing...
...every Harvard student can e-mail his or her own personal obsessions (limited to 10) to a computer dating service promising everyone the opportunity to get some, some ultimate sustenance at the end of term. (Personally, I have always been an adherent to the Tina Brown model of cocktail party socialization, flitting from group to group with a cheerful wave and a smile-then, "I think we are expected to circulate; see you in section." I never got a chance to take up www.thespark.com on the offer to try to consummate my last crush...
Bernstein recalls how, at a cocktail party forpotential new members, the AYD student leaderschanted, "If Truman's in the way, we're gonna rollright over...