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...internet bubble may have burst at the turn of the century, but the dot-com boom has just hit Harvard...
...helps Bush that when he backslides, he is typically shifting to a popular position from an unpopular one. He not only opposed Rice's testifying publicly before the 9/11 commission, on the ground of Executive privilege, but had opposed creation of the com-mission until the pressure from, among others, the victims' families became too hot. Yet any political damage, argues a senior Administration official, is "totally overwhelmed by the fact of her testifying." Bush is allowing another commission to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq, which he had also opposed; wooing the U.N., which he had derided; and signed...
...INDICATORS Don't Call Back French cell-phone operator Orange announced the departure of CEO Solomon Trujillo after just a year in the job. The move comes amid structural change at Orange 's parent, France Télécom...
...This column grew out of two kinds of stories I?ve written for ?the real magazine? - for TIME not-com. (In addition, that is, to all the movie reviews, celebrity profiles and arrant forays into the world of sport, science and, last week, the criminal underworld). One is a tribute to long-dead actors or musicians, usually tagged to a reissue or revaluation of their work...
...again. A flurry of merger activity last week - both real and rumored - demonstrates the new mood. Shares in Britain's mobile-phone service mmO2 soared almost 20% after it rebuffed a merger offer of about €13 billion from Dutch phone operator KPN, while France Télécom boosted the valuations of several Internet service providers with its €3.9 billion offer for the 29% share of France's Wanadoo - Europe's second biggest ISP - it doesn't already own. And on Thursday Britain had its biggest tech IPO since 2000; shares in wireless microchip maker Cambridge Silicon...