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When Jobs' remarks are repeated to Jeff Braun, he says, "That's what it's about! It's a vision." Braun is the co-founder of Maxis, which makes computer-simulation games. The company went public last May, and now Braun's stake is valued at about $79 million. To commemorate deals, investment banks make Lucite cubes containing miniature versions of the "tombstone" ads that run in newspapers announcing an offering. Braun holds up his memento of the Maxis IPO and says, "I'm proud of this. This represents the maturing of the company. It says you're an adult...
Conservatives and liberals all seem to regard the high-tech entrepreneur as the ideal economic agent. They do so with good reason, for if capitalism is "creative destruction," in Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, then people like Marc Andreessen, Steve Jobs, Jeff Braun, Bill Schrader and Doug Colbeth are responsible for the creating part. But is there much that conservative or liberal policies can really do to nurture such enterprise? Would Marc Andreessen work harder under a flat tax? The creating part of capitalism is the part that economic laws do not explain. Like a code writer and his code...
...Jeff C. Tarr '96, the former president of Digitas, said the imposition of "user fees" reflects "a general trend" among college campuses because the number of Internet users has grown faster than expected...
...charged with making men out of them in White Squall is Christopher Sheldon (Jeff Bridges), skipper of the Albatross, a sailing ship he has turned into a floating secondary school. He's the sort of father figure these chinless wonders have never had--stern but caring, and at one with the winds and the waves. Also, he seems to have the ability to tell them apart, a matter on which Todd Robinson's script--not to mention the casting director--is not very helpful. Sheldon's promise is that after a year of crewing with him, all the nonsense will...
...case of Hillary Rodham Clinton, glimpses of the shadow appeared the moment Jeff Gerth's article in The New York Times was printed on March 8, 1992, the first investigative report questioning the Clintons' involvement with Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and the Whitewater Development Company. This report marked the beginning of the end for Mrs. Clinton, during which she would gradually be subjected to the grueling fate of a suspect politician. Her political competence, integrity and trustworthiness were instantly colored by the doubt the media channeled to the public...