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AFTER BARELY TWO YEARS OF EXIStence, NetEdge Systems is ready to cash in big. The fast-growing North Carolina company, which makes devices called edge routers that connect computers to high-speed voice and data networks over telephone lines, plans to launch an initial public offering (ipo) of its stock to raise some $40 million in the second half of this year. NetEdge already has more than 100 employees and revenues of about $25 million and expects to show a profit by the end of 1996. The public offering will finance the firm's expansion; it will also boost...
...meeting was led by Harold Ickes, who had just become deputy chief of staff. Now Ickes is again heavily involved in Whitewater damage control. Other advisers want to launch an aggressive campaign of openness that would include releasing all Whitewater files to the press and having the First Lady volunteer to testify to the Senate committee. But Ickes, a close ally of Mrs. Clinton's and the primary manager of the President's re-election campaign, disagrees. He believes that any such strategy is risky and would not prevent the Republicans from keeping Whitewater a live issue throughout the campaign...
...name of cleaning things up to take up target practice and toughen his flesh via fire. Finally, he has transformed, or, more accurately, his mind has turned inside out for all to see. With a dramatically different physical appearance, Travis now packs weapons, most notably a gun he can launch from within his shirt into his right hand via a homemade spring mechanism...
...charm of early primary races was that for once the candidates had to go full retail, shaking every hand in Iowa, trolling through the north-country diners, meeting real voters face to face who would take their measure in their own sweet time. No one could ever afford to launch a full-scale air war so early; the candidates typically have held a substantial chunk of their limited funds in reserve for broadcast battles in the Super Tuesday states, as well as the big primaries of New York and California...
...series in which members of the faculty outlined their vision of what Harvard should be doing in the study of Africa. So large were the audiences that the lectures had to be moved from seminar rooms to lecture halls. Dinner discussions followed. From these deliberations have come plans to launch a center for research into Africa's development. The Committee on African Studies, headed by Anthony Appiah; the Department of Afro-American Studies, headed by Henry Louis Gates; and the Harvard Institute of International Development, headed by Jeffrey Sachs '76, are now designing the foundations for a Center for Research...