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...particularly vulnerable to email and chatroom conversations with folks they may meet in the intimate setting of the computer screen in their own den or bedroom. In that sense, the Net offers the same sort of intrusive contact with people in their homes that has made telemarketing a multibillion-dollar business. Just as lonely people often are vulnerable to pitchmen who call them at home, some maladjusted or immature people are unusually receptive to online conversations with strangers or to information that is different than what they see around them in their communities. The communication and the ideas can feel...
...that sense, the Net offers the same sort of intrusive contact with people in their homes that has made telemarketing a multibillion-dollar business. Just as lonely people often are vulnerable to pitchmen who call them at home, some maladjusted or immature people are unusually receptive to online conversations with strangers or to information that is different than what they see around them in their communities. The communication and the ideas can feel more personal or important than they are. While most people are mature enough to ignore the nuts or the nosy people and use this rich medium...
...boss was Edgar Bronfman. Heir to the Seagram spirits business, he had devoted his early years to building the company founded by his father into a multibillion-dollar empire. Only when his ardently Zionist father died in 1971 did Edgar rediscover his faith. For the past 20 years, he has expended much of his formidable energy and much of his time on the activities of the World Jewish Congress. Bronfman first transformed the relatively passive fund-raising charity into a prime mover of Jewish causes. He has personally bankrolled much of the organization's work and used his stature...
Gates sounds like a truly happy man. He's doing what he loves, and he's getting rewarded for doing it. Even the head of a multibillion-dollar international corporation can always find time to do what he wants to do. When talking about religion, Gates says going to church is not very efficient in terms of allocation of time. But he has been known to make time to indulge in all-night bridge games, 1,100-page textbooks, singing lessons and 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles. KENT CLARK La Crescenta, California...
...Asian Americans this year, he was a frequent visitor to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What the records didn't explain is just what Huang was doing during all those visits. Could he have been seeking political favors for big contributors, particularly those with ties to Indonesia, the home of the multibillion-dollar Lippo Group financial conglomerate that was once Huang's employer? Was Huang a rogue fund raiser? Or was he acting at the behest of the White House--perhaps even the President--to bring cash into the Democratic National Committee's coffers...