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...Internet entrepreneurs who rode the elevator to the penthouse and got off before it plunged earthward. That's not bad for a kid from the working-class south Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Davis learned the basics as a salesman at GE and later at the now defunct office-automation pioneer Wang Labs--one of the hottest companies of its time before being blown away by DEC and others. In 1995 he was brought in by a fledgling venture-capital company, CMGI, to run a search-engine operation called Lycos (derived by the technology's creator from the Latin name...
...Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist and author of short stories that characterized subcontinental village life; in the southern Indian city of Madras. Narayan was an early pioneer among Indian literati writing in English. CHARGED. LI SHAOMIN, 45, U.S. citizen and business professor who had been detained in China for three months, with spying for Taiwan; in Beijing. Li is one of five Chinese American citizens or residents, mostly academics, who have been detained in recent months by Beijing...
...which America has a 250-year supply and a nasty history: coal. Last week Cheney aides summoned its champions to a White House auditorium to give them the good news. There were West Virginia coal baron James (Buck) Harless, who raised at least $100,000 as a Bush "Pioneer"; Stephen Addington, president of Kentucky-based AEI Resources, whose executives gave more than $600,000 to Republicans last election; and lobbyists for Peabody Energy, the biggest digger in the country, whose chairman gave the Republican Party more than $250,000 last year. Money to burn, perhaps. "We were told coal...
...played nobles and villains, whom the leading lady finds instantly attractive but must ultimately renounce (unless she was played by Tsuru Aoki, another Japan-born Hollywood star who was, for 47 years, Hayakawa's wife). In a society as officially white as America in the 1910s, Hayakawa was a pioneer: the first Japanese superstar of Hollywood films. So far, alas, he is also the last...
DIED. ALFRED MOEN, 84, plumbing-fixture pioneer; in Destin, Fla. Moen hatched the idea for the single-knob faucet as a college student in 1937 after he was scalded by the then ubiquitous two-handled variety. His namesake company claims to sell more than 70% of the kitchen faucets...