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...cents, leaving me with just $4.40, but it didn't seem to matter. This was excitement. The sun was just getting overhead, and I was on the road...
...site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each of those exchanges, eBay is one of the few Net start-ups to turn a profit--albeit a small one--on sales of $47 million last year. Since eBay acts as an intermediary with little or no overhead to cover, "consumer-to-consumer auctions can be like printing money," says Marc Johnson, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. No wonder investors have valued the fledgling company at a monstrous $16 billion--nearly that of Sears, which has 872 times as much in sales ($41.3 billion...
...need to resent gentlemanly behavior as merely another attempt to turn me into a useless blob; I should think of all women as goddesses and all men as devils via penis. But I can t. I appreciate it when a man lifts my carry-on up into the overhead bin, and I refuse to blame men for every fault in the world...
Slobbery tennis balls flying overhead, tunnel-vision students march unwittingly through one of Harvard's hottest social scenes. It's not the Hasty Pudding Club; it's not the Fly Club. And though the literal brown-nosing the that goes on here may resemble a punch event, this crowd runs circles around any of Harvard's ornganized parties...
...secrecy in which alleged negotiations are being carried out reinforces the notion that there is something to hide. This year in its "Report of Giving" Radcliffe has concealed much of its administrative outlay under a heading of "programs and financial aid." I believe a more accurate accounting of overhead would show administrative costs of close to 50 percent, or about twice the normal expectation for a nonprofit institution. Let us hope that the undergraduate ghost gets laid to rest before too much more of the capital gets spent...