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...surpassed several undisclosed amounts. After a $100 offer, Lippin’s shirt came off, revealing his swimmer’s shoulders and sexy six-pack. Sadly, no one bid high enough for Lippin to strip down to his speedo. After the auction, he disclosed that the magic number would have been $150. While Lippin was spared the embarrassment of near-nudity, he was pleasantly surprised by his $105 price tag. “I didn’t even expect to get over $100,” he said...
...case just a few years ago. In December 1999--about the same time Buffett presciently warned in FORTUNE that stock-market returns were on the verge of a dramatic and long-lasting slowdown--a writer at Barron's stated what many were thinking: "Warren Buffett may be losing his magic touch." As the Internet craze mounted through the '90s, Buffett had become a renowned technophobe. But consider this feat: during the past three grueling bear-market years, Berkshire stock has soared nearly 40%. Those remarkable returns came during a period when hundreds of companies went bankrupt and millions of investors...
...original smart mobs were teenage "thumb tribes" in Tokyo and Helsinki who punched out short, cheap text messages on primitive cell phones to organize impromptu raves or to stalk their favorite celebrities. (In Tokyo, crowds of teenage fans would appear as if by magic at subway stops where a rock musician was rumored to be headed.) "Texting," as this practice is known, spread like the Hong Kong flu, especially in the developing world. In the Philippines, the black-clad crowds that toppled President Joseph Estrada in 2001 were summoned into being with a now famous single line of coded text...
...crux of the preregistration proposal, however, is whether or not it will provide accurate predictions. Wolcowitz acknowledges that during the proposed “liberal add/drop period,” student course selections will change significantly. But he said the “magic of preregistration” is such that even though students don’t take the same courses they originally select, at other schools, the course estimates stay roughly consistent. Even if one buys into such “magic,” the culture of Harvard does not seem likely to support it. Shopping period...
...many parents, “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood” provided a rare moment of relief, a half hour when they could count on the creatures that Lewis Carroll called fabulous monsters to sit before a television screen, completely absorbed by the gentle magic of the least charismatic wizard in the history of children’s entertainment. There is nothing at all mystifying about the appeal of Fred Rogers for adults. But for those of us who never experienced the show as a child, there is something bewildering about the hold of a man who, like...