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...more fun on the team than last year," Ronz said. "Everybody's laughing, everybody's joking. The coaches are letting us mess around, and there's a lot more smiles on the team...
...This has no practical purpose. I study government. Not political science; government. I learn about tyranny of the majority, not health care. Rather than learning about basic accounting or business management, as my brother at Virginia Tech does, my bookshelf is full of Thoreau and my checkbook is a mess. I am learning how to think, although I have nothing that practical to think about (something you may have noticed from this column). Not that I mind, I may never get rich, but as one government professor noted, I will never be bored...
...theirs to mess up," says Larry Feinberg, health-care hedge-fund manager at Oracle Partners. WebMD lost $246 million last year, despite more than doubling revenues, to $517 million. But the loss was smaller than anticipated, and it expects to turn a profit later this year. To compete with Allscripts and other e-scription players, Wygod is racing to roll out his own portable platform. He just inked a deal to be the primary content provider for Microsoft's MSN service...
...telecom industry get itself into this mess? The birth of UMTS just happened to coincide with the peak of the speculative rage for technology investments. In March 2000, the Spanish government sold some of the first UMTS spectrum licenses to four firms for a total of about $450 million, or roughly $12 for every Spaniard. "The market capitalizations of the companies that got these [licenses] rose by more than they paid for them," says Falk Müller-Veerse, European research manager for the investment group Durlacher. "So everyone said, 'We have to get these.'" Put another way, the stock...
...From the very outset, then, the objective of U.S. diplomacy was to create a calm and cooperative atmosphere in which the two sides could get on with the business of helping each other out of the mess. Powell projected an unthreatening, businesslike approach, sending out diplomatic feelers every which way to emphasize to Beijing that Washington was in the market for a mutually acceptable solution...