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Talk about expensive addresses: According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Compaq Computer Corp., owners of the Alta Vista search engine, paid a San Jose, Calif., business owner $3.35 million for the rights to the domain name www.altavista.com...
That's a lot of dough for 12 letters and a period (no charge for the the www.) -- very likely the most ever paid for a domain name, in fact. The lucky seller is Jack Marshall, who in January 1994 registered the Internet address for his startup, AltaVista Technology. He might as well have stayed in bed after that -- it's unlikely anything he did with his company subsequently ever yielded the kind of return he was to get on his $100 registration...
Glover and Gibson take their characters far beyond the domain of normal sequel heroes. Murtaugh has always been the quintessential head of household, guarding his flock; Glover's understated performance captures the essence of a cautious man. Riggs has cleaned up and settled down since his first days as Murtaugh's partner, so Gibson doesn't have the crazed Vietnam vet side of his character to play with like he did in the original, but Gibson is equally adept with his characters mellowed thoughtfulness...
...their way to winning the regatta's second most prestigious title after the Grand Challenge Cup, the domain of national teams, the Crimson trounced Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania...
...seed in that large space between who I had come from and who I was going to be. I thought I was throwing off shackles, but, all the time, I was too fettered by a lack of imagination and compassion to grasp that original thought was not strictly my domain. I counted on my mama to be ever anxious and ever annoying back home, to be always bristling with superstition and suspicion. In so doing, I never perceived her as even eligble for the freedom I demanded for myself...