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When an American Internet merchant like Jeff Bezos joins Charles Lindbergh and Winston Churchill in the pantheon of TIME's Men of the Year, it's all too easy to assume that the economic future belongs exclusively to the U.S. and that Europe will become a quaint museum dependent on tourism and some luxury niches for its livelihood. Too easy--and wrong. While the Old World is still bedeviled by archaic habits and practices, it enjoys a global lead, possibly unsurpassable, in certain sectors that are at the heart of the technological revolution...
Every Harvard player appeared in the game, with freshmen Sam Winter and Brady Merchant each getting 20 minutes of action...
...that of finding an easy and safe way for people to spend money online in small amounts. "Right now there isn't really a viable way for consumers to pay for something that costs 50[cents], because that's about how much a credit-card transaction costs the merchant," says Ken Cassar, an analyst with the e-commerce research firm Jupiter Communications. "It's just not economical for online merchants to sell things that cost less than $10 or $20." Early attempts to create a practical alternative to credit cards for conducting financial transactions online have been slow to gain...
...take a backseat to this desire. "I wanted to make a film about believable people doing believable things in unbelievable ways," Egoyan has always said about The Adjuster. After seeing the film, a wicked black comedy that involves an insurance adjuster, film censors, an ex-football player, a lamp merchant, a podiatrist, and a butterfly collector among others, critic Roger Ebert mused that Egoyan must love puzzles, paradoxes, and card tricks...
...actually not going to change too much [to defend Woodbine]," said freshman scoring guard Brady Merchant...