Word: highlanders
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Last year filmmaker R.J. Cutler and two camera crews followed 14 kids at Highland Park High School in suburban Chicago, intending, he says, to make "a nonfiction My So-Called Life." A season ago, Fox would no doubt have marketed the resulting series as a teen drama. Now the catchphrase du jour is "reality TV." Trends come and trends go, but it is never a good year to sell a documentary...
...native farmers has found a way to get more than 10 times the local price for its potato crop by selling to a New York City organic-food store it found on the Internet. In the streets of Sao Paulo, fashionable women have taken to carrying around white West Highland terriers, the mascot of a free Internet-service provider called iG that, like the pups, has skyrocketed in popularity...
...believer in alternate universes as an explanation for lost items. Somewhere in a parallel universe, another Alan Perlman is scratching his head and wondering why the devil he suddenly has three identical brown belts and two CDs of Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard. ALAN M. PERLMAN Highland Park...
...invests in a broad group of third-party venture capital firms. These firms are located across the country, from Highland Capital Partners headquartered in Boston, to Crosspoint Venture Partners, of northern California, to Walden International Investment Group of San Francisco. These companies invest in firms focusing on a broad range of start-up companies, from the internet to communications to health care...
Higgins says universities are the ideal investors for venture capital. Since only the interest on the endowments is spent, he says, investors do not panic during temporary downturns and understand the importance of long-term investing. Over half of Highland's institutional investors are university endowments...