Word: portale
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...recent deals have been less successful. Bertelsmann invested heavily in e-commerce, including a stake in the booksellers Barnes & Noble.com in the U.S. and bol.com in Europe. He also put $30 million into Napster, which he hoped to turn from an illegal song-sharing website to a legitimate portal for selling music. The site is currently being retooled for its new mission. Last year, Bertelsmann admitted having ?890 million in Internet startup losses. Another questionable buy was the $550 million or so Middlehoff paid for the U.S. magazines Fast Company and Inc. just as the Internet boom was fading...
...from al-Qaeda's point of view, the September 11th "martyrdom" mission was a roaring success, its 19 perpetrators to be eternally lionized in the terror network's video hall of fame. No such plaudits for Number 20. Indeed, for Moussaoui the portal to paradise that fills the fevered imagination of terrorists inspired by a twisted reading of Islam closed that day, leaving him stranded on this Earth...
...future, every U.S. citizen will get to be Sacagawea for 15 minutes. For the low price of admission, every American, regardless of race, religion, gender and age, will climb through the portal into Sacagawea's Shoshone Indian brain. In the multicultural theme park called Sacagawea Land, you will be kidnapped as a child by the Hidatsa tribe and sold to Toussaint Charbonneau, the French-Canadian trader who will take you as one of his wives and father two of your children. Your first child, Jean-Baptiste, will be only a few months old as you carry him during your long...
...market to help pay for recent acquisitions. Then last month the company announced a $13.7 billion write-down, confirming criticism that Messier had overpaid for his empire. That loss includes Vivendi's share of the $1.34 billion the company and its British partner Vodafone pumped into a snazzy Internet portal, Vizzavi, which Messier claimed would be revolutionary. Vizzavi is now practically worthless. To some, it was evidence that Messier--who started his career as a French government bureaucrat--was in over his head. "The market sees him taking on an operational challenge and isn't convinced he has the background...
...Hollywood's hottest It boys. At a time when so many movies seem formulaic--sequels, prequels and comic books--Kaufman's scripts are like the products of chaos theory. His first movie, Being John Malkovich, stunned even jaded moviegoers with its tale of a puppeteer who discovers a portal into the mind of actor John Malkovich. His next offering, Human Nature, in cinemas now, is another head snapper. Patricia Arquette plays Lila, an abnormally hirsute woman who falls in love with a light-in-the-shorts behavioral scientist, Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins). Bronfman is trying, with some success, to teach...