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...registration campaign will culminate Oct. 15 with a day of politics and games sponsored by Harvard Youth for Political Empowerment (HYPE...
...amazing aspects of Lebed's story, or that of any Net fraudster, is that people act on the hype they see online. Large banks like Chase Manhattan pay millions of dollars a year in premiums to insure against a rogue trader like Leeson. Your best protection against a rogue Internet hypster is just not to listen. Most pump-and-dump schemes involve micro-cap stocks. That's your first tip-off. Often they hype them as likely to double or better in weeks. If you have questions, the SEC has a brochure, "Pump&Dump.con," with tips for avoiding scams...
...there," says Bob Smith, a Houston oil executive. He upgraded his computer five years ago specifically to dump his broker and trade online. He checks the financial Web postings and tunes in to chat sessions on the market. But he also does his own research and notes that the hype-and-con element of Wall Street isn't just online. "Highly paid analysts hype Internet stocks with outrageous price targets, then drop their estimates," he says. "I am sure they get their firms out of a position before they drop the bomb on the rest of the investing public...
...friend, Jared Glugeth, started a Web-based business called Promotion Solutions www.eprolutions.com) which purports to help clients advertise their websites, and PRHost.com a web-hosting service. They're a pair of go-getters. Glugeth had the foresight to use Lebed's media moment last week to hype their Web business. "I'm not here to talk about Jonathan," Glugeth told a swarm of reporters outside Lebed's house. "I'm here to talk about our company...
Jones is an extremely gifted athlete who is pretty, vivacious and supremely confident. She seems to have thrived on the pre-Olympics hype for her goal of winning five gold medals. Every Olympic event has its sad moments when an athlete fails to live up to expectations. The pressure on everyone is enormous. I hope she has the kind of success experienced 40 years ago by sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who won three gold medals in Rome. Rudolph was the model of grace and humility, two qualities all Olympic athletes today might emulate. PAUL L. WHITELEY SR. Louisville...