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Patrick Byrne, the site's founder and CEO, says his next project is to do his version of VCE: resell surplus tech hardware not only to consumers but also to mom-and-pop retailers for around 40% off the wholesale price. By comparison, mega-stores like WalMart usually get at most a 10% discount from jobbers or liquidation agents. Couple that with Overstock's tiny minimum wholesale order--six units--and it appears that Byrne is trying to play Robin Hood to America's 130,000 small retailers. "These guys are getting put out of business by WalMart because they...
...Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs GOP chair: Phil Gramm, Texas Democratic chair: Paul Sarbanes, Maryland Effect of change: Sarbanes? quiet style means less publicity for committee and his distaste for financial mega-institutions could mean fewer mergers...
...Zell Miller, a conservative maverick Democrat from Georgia, has been courted by Republicans practically from the day he was sworn in last January. Texas Republican Sen. Phil Gramm got Miller to sign onto George W. Bush's mega-tax cut, and, ever since, Gramm has been trying to sweet talk Miller into becoming a Republican. Press speculation became white hot several weeks ago that Miller was about to jump ship. The speculators apparently were ahead of Miller, who adamantly denies he was mulling a switch. "I don't want to talk about it!" Miller barked when I cornered him with...
...Broadway theater, the new millennium has started on a note of musical diminuendo. With the demise of "Cats," the soon-to-be-missing "Miss Saigon" and the lack of any new hits from Andrew Lloyd Webber or the "Les Miz" team in years, the era of the Brit-generated mega-musical seems all but over. Happily, straight plays seem to be filling the gap. Demanding dramas like Michael Frayn's "Copenhagen" have become unlikely Broadway hits, while the Manhattan Theatre Club, an off-Broadway stalwart, successfully transferred two strong works, "Proof" and "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife...
Some actors rise above the monotony of the production. Augustine in the dual role of Narrator and Mysterious Man (the Baker’s father), props up the show with his mega-watt personality and nearly walks off with it in his pocket. The witch of Vered A. Metsen ’01 hits the right notes, handling the character’s difficult numbers and especially shining in “Stay With Me.” Joe F. Keefe ’04 surprises no one with his fantastic singing, but also shows excellent timing and genuine vulnerability...