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What's the bottom line? Wireless companies like Jamdat and Infospace are getting panting attention from venture capitalists convinced that cell-phone services are their newest gold mine. Wall Street has started to grill every consumer company about its wireless strategy. But this hypefest isn't quite like the dotcom delusion. "This started with a business model," notes Disney's Shapiro. "We're being prudent...
...moral support during the process, were charmed by a certain family resemblance. "He's one of us," they concluded. When Hancock and Steven met a week later, they developed an instant rapport. Driving home later, Hancock phoned the caseworker to say, "You can close Steven's file. He's mine...
ERICA: Her voice is extremely different from mine and very distinctive. Some of the stuff that she writes about [in this book] I can barely even recognize as my own life. It's the daughter's point of view. Some of the stuff about the men I dated, I had written about, but you'd never recognize the same person in the way she wrote about it, which I guess is the way it should be. Her view is very comic and very dark...
Part of this seeming complacency may be due to legitimate confusion about what should be done next. Even as we see more and more evidence that the war was a bad idea, we don’t know what should be done about it. Friends of mine who thought the war was a ridiculous idea think we have to keep U.S. troops in the country until something good happens...
...keeps a porcelain jar full of rice-paper scrolls so that he can practice his calligraphy between deals. On weekends he studies oil painting with his 7-year-old daughter. He hopes that by the time she grows up, he will have become chairman of China's largest gold mine?a fitting aspiration for a man with a knack for spotting buried treasure...