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Prior to the start of this season, fifth year Harvard Coach Joe Walsh suggested that this year's baseball team would produce runs with more power, rather than its traditional nickel-and-dime approach to manufacturing runs...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Baseball Bats Go Through Dog Days | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...endangered. If you're unknown, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to get discovered and attain stardom. And if you're already a star, you can avoid the middleman by using the Net to keep most of the money yourself. "It's like putting a nickel into the world's biggest slot machine, isn't it?" said King. It's a long-shot bet, and the profits are still mainly in the hands of the big media companies. But the entertainment space is attracting lots of gamblers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...makes $30, give or take a nickel. She buys herself and her friend a Thanksgiving-break meal: Chinese food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Telling Her Stories | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

Although Director of Brown News Service Mark Nickel says "there's nothing that could be considered a direct speech code at Brown" some students at the Providence university disagree...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz and Alixandra E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Locus of Conduct: Why Brown Speaks Carefully and Why Harvard Speaks Freely | 2/2/2000 | See Source »

There was a time when Bezos could say, "If I had a nickel for every time a potential investor told me this wouldn't work..." and then lapse off into head shaking. Now he follows that line with a wild, giggly laugh. No wonder: as of last week, Bezos had 200 billion nickels. A rich reward, to be sure, but how on earth can you compensate a man who can see the future? Perhaps by inaugurating him into that club of men and women selected for having had, "for better or worse," the biggest impact in a given year. Welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffrey Preston Bezos: 1999 PERSON OF THE YEAR | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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