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...some time, it was simply a given that eBay would take China by storm as the online marketplace exploded, that it would be, as Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck puts it, a "layup." In 1999, Shao Yibo, a Harvard Business School graduate, started EachNet, an e-commerce company, in China. Shao's site openly aped eBay in style and content, effectively screaming "buy me" at the San Jose, California, giant. In 2002 eBay complied, paying $30 million for a third of the company and taking the rest for an additional $150 million the following year. This, arguably, was a hefty...
...From hell's heart I stab at thee!" spumes Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) as he harpoons the great white beast. "For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee, thou damnèd whale!" Yes, this version of the Melville novel has its starchy parts, and Peck takes a while to shake off his trademark decency and slip into Ahab's rasping obsession. Plus, the film's mechanical whale, which looks like a great slab of lard with a cold blue eye, kept sinking when it was meant to swim. But what matters is the saline tang...
...lived on campus her freshman year, although with heightened security. She underwent the competitive Ivy League admissions process and came out lucky—fellow celebrities, such as the kin of Katherine Hepburn and son of Gregory Peck, were never granted acceptance into the Class...
...known for playing an urban sophisticate transplanted with his wife (Eva Gabor) to the country, in the 1960s sitcom Green Acres; in Los Angeles. After lead roles on Broadway (Room Service, The Boys from Syracuse), he won an Oscar nomination as the jaunty photographer and pal to reporter Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. But he could seethe too, winning acclaim as a psychopathic infantry officer in the 1956 World War II drama Attack and another Oscar nomination as the forbidding father of Cybill Shepherd's Wasp princess in The Heartbreak...
...characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn may have taken the cheap option on that Vespa in Roman Holiday, but in the real world a stay in the Italian capital could empty your pockets, especially if you're traveling with kids. A couple of double rooms in a decent, centrally-located hotel will...