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...months, Silicon Valley has been abuzz with the prospect of the first blockbuster public offering in the tech sector since the dotcom crash: the IPO of search-engine giant Google, expected this month. But Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin seem to be doing their darnedest to dampen the hype. The company last week gave an unusually bullish official estimate of its opening share price: $108 to $135 a share, or more than 150 times annual per-share profit. (Most large companies average about one-seventh of that.) Google watchers were split on the reason. Either Page and Brin...
...pouring that Wednesday, but nothing could dampen the spirits of Beth and her brood. When we asked if by any chance the girls could perform a number, they quickly assumed their places. Allie and Diana conferred ?backstage? as Catherine warmed up the audience of three. When there was a momentary delay, the four-year-old announced, ?We will now have a brief intermission.? The soubrettes then materialized, to sing - not an Alicia Keys or Gretchen Wilson hit, but a number from ?42nd Street,? the 1981 Broadway show revived three years ago and still running, and, in deepest antiquity...
...former Vermont Gov. Howard B. Dean, yes, and no amount of convention committee vetting could entirely dampen the sincere righteousness that made him such a compelling candidate way back when. But there’s no denying that this was a different Dean than we knew in January, a firebrand muted. Even Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., seemed more restrained than usual, earning applause that must have been more for his sterling record as the Senate’s proud liberal leader than anything he said Tuesday night...
...unable to shop where they want," rails Napster CEO Chris Gorog. Maybe, but for the Europeans among iPod's 2 million users worldwide, iTunes' arrival is music to their ears. France's Real Power Brokers France likes its picket lines. Strikes creating overcrowded subways or undelivered mail rarely dampen public support for striking workers. But sympathy sank last week when power workers cut off electric supplies at Paris' main train stations, stranding a half million angry passengers. After this fumble, the strikers are now scrambling to rally public opinion. In the northern city of Lille, local electric company employees switched...
Gerver said the downpour—or the stains—of her Commencement failed to dampen her friends’ spirits that...