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...company that lets clients hire out its enterprise applications, are members of the Oracle alumni e-mail list. There is no love lost for Ellison among them: "He's not great at relationships," says Benioff. "He struggles ... in his personal and professional life." But the feeling is not mutual. "Even when I'm fighting them, I feel proud of these guys," says Ellison. "I would compare our alumni with that of the best business school...
Michael would be Michael Stipe of R.E.M. The two singers struck up a friendship through mutual admiration in the mid-'90s, and Stipe, another introverted front man, has become Yorke's occasional mentor. "It's a very particular thing that we do," says Stipe. "It's different from playing guitar or acting or painting, and he just needed someone who had been through it to kind of bring him back down to earth and overstate the obvious, which is that you can't believe your own hype. His material explores darker aspects of walking the earth, and people project that...
Common wisdom holds that you should never invest in a stock mutual fund that has less than a three-year record--no matter how well the fund performed the previous year or two. Even a monkey throwing darts has a 50% shot at superior returns over one year, and the ape's odds of doing well over two years remain uncomfortably high. Do you really want to take the chance that your fund manager is nothing more than a lucky primate? Of course not. But you don't want to rule out potential winners either. New evidence suggests that young...
MARRIED. CAROL CHANNING, 82, relentlessly effervescent actress best known for her role in the Broadway musical Hello, Dolly!; to a junior-high sweetheart, Harry Kullijian, 83; in Atherton, Calif. The pair was reunited after a mutual friend saw several mentions of Kullijian in Channing's recent autobiography, Just Lucky I Guess, and suggested he call her. His first response: "I thought she was dead...
...them, or the technology, before they can recoup costs. The Big Three now want to outsource more R. and D. to suppliers, but Detroit has made low cost a priority, tending to negotiate short-term deals and drop contracts with partsmakers if a better offer emerges--resulting, sometimes, in mutual acrimony...