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...Golf is a sport. But what, exactly, makes golf a sport? Is it physical complexities of the golfer?s swing? The subtleties of strategy? Is it the ability to walk across an 18-hole golf course in the heat of summer...
...privilege of featuring Lycos on the Netscape start-up page (it had always been free). Lycos had only $1 million in revenues, and this Netscape larceny threatened to derail the IPO. But Davis and his team threw together a more disciplined business model, squeezed through the IPO hole and raised $40 million in a day's trading...
...land where economics comes to die. Interest rates have been cut so many times that they now rest at just .05%. The Japanese government has spent more money on public works than any other country in the world, but blowing all that cash has been useless. There is a hole in the center of Japan--a deep lack of confidence that comes from an overhang of trash loans from the early '90s and from a decade of failed policy. Smart Japanese consumers are nervously waiting for those loans to blow up. So encouraging consumers to start spending is like encouraging...
...talk about anything else until it ends; the Palestinians believe they have no incentive for stopping attacks on Israelis in the absence of a peace process. And so Israelis and Palestinians remain trapped in a strategic cul-de-sac, and no amount of violence is likely to blow a hole through to the other side...
...other hand, if you drain the sentimentality out of Mother's Day, you may have nothing left. How to deal with such a hole in the calendar? Should we declare a new holiday, to be called Daycare Day, to honor a new cultural arrangement...