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...presidential election approaches, some College students are using online betting sites to profit from their political expertise...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Bet On Election Outcome | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...contrast, a relative upstart with $5.4 billion in annual revenue, increasingly is focused on online commerce--and its travel portion generates 31% of revenue and 61% of operating profit. IAC also owns LendingTree, dating service Match.com local online resource CitySearch and the largely offline cash generators Ticketmaster and Home Shopping Network (HSN). Diller's strategy: use the cash from Ticketmaster and HSN to promote his online ambitions, and be there as consumers migrate from all manner of traditional services to the Web. "We fundamentally believe that more and more things are going online," Diller says. "We are experts in bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Travel: The Race Is On! | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...branches of Netherlands-based ING Group, British broker Benfield Group and Germany's Munich Re. The firms have denied wrongdoing, but investors were spooked. There are no reliable stats on how widespread the practice is in Europe, but price pressure on insurers after the scandal could lead to lower profit margins. It's a reminder that global business means global regulation, too spooked. There are no reliable stats on how widespread the practice is in Europe, but price pressure on insurers after the scandal could lead to lower profit margins. It's a reminder that global business means global regulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...student for the student” aspect of the book. “So many of those books are written by admissions officers. These are students the reader can relate to,” Kung says. One separation is that The College Matters Guide is completely non-profit, donating 100 percent of its earnings to a scholarship fund to assist those who they help get into college actually be able to attend...

Author: By Rebecca A. Kaden, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Knowledge Is Power | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

These initiatives hardly seem unreasonable in light of what Harvard gives its already privileged neighbors: money. Lots of money. Though Harvard is a tax-exempt non-profit, it rakes in a truckload of money in the form of tourism, which in turn feeds the local economy. And then there are the subsidies. Take a look at the millions and millions that Harvard will be shelling out to the Agassiz neighborhood (near the law school) for special projects over the next few years. According to census data, this pristine wilderness already has the second highest household income of all of Cambridge?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Cheese With That Whine? | 10/21/2004 | See Source »

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