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Buffett complained that these trust managers were distorting the market in his company but ultimately decided that the best way to beat 'em was to join 'em. Last week shares of a new Class B stock, quickly dubbed Baby Berkshires, went on the market for a mere $1,110 per, a fraction of the mother issue's market value. The Baby B's gained $50 to hit $1,160 the first day and finished at $1,200 on Friday. Whether they'll ever grow up to be like Mama is, well, what markets are all about...
CELLULAR WONDERS: BEAM 'EM...
...chips aside, the public thirst for video bloodletting hasn't abated. "You couldn't have better timing for a 3-D shoot-'em-up game like Quake," says Richard Zwetchkenbaum, research director for International Data Corp., a marketing-consultant firm in Framingham, Massachusetts. The way Zwetchkenbaum sees it, Quake's arrival will feed two huge markets: the demand for sophisticated 3-D games, and for multiplayer games that can be contested remotely over the Internet...
...computer games, these are days of feverish anticipation. The twitchy teenagers and addicted adults who spend hours at a time blasting away the phosphorous phantoms on their PC screens know that Quake is coming. It's more like a second coming: Quake's forebear, the virtual reality, blast-'em-up sensation called Doom, is probably the most popular PC game ever created. Countless fans are currently searching 75 Websites looking for signs of Quake as if it were a visiting comet...
...what commentators are diplomatically calling his temperament. Maybe, in one of the many public appearances he has made to say that the Reform Party is not about him, he said something considered favorable to those who believe in Unidentified Flying Objects. ("What you want to do is to get 'em close enough so you can look under the hood. It's as simple as that...