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...Case in point: Shanda Interactive Entertainment, China's largest online game provider. Huang's fund injected $40 million into the business and helped its young, Chinese-educated chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...
Case in point: Shanda Interactive Entertainment, China's largest online game provider. Huang's fund injected $40 million into the business and helped its young, Chinese-educated chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...
...renewed in more positive form through a Capone agent to Col. Lindbergh. Capone promised to return the baby "in two or three days" if Col. Lindbergh could get him free that long. This new Capone offer supported a theory, held by even those closest to Col. Lindbergh, that the proper criminals got Col. Lindbergh's $50,000 and then proceeded to turn the baby over to another gang. This gang could use the child as an instrument for extorting further ransom. Or it might make a favorable impression on the nation's prosecutors by returning the child gratis. It might...
...referring to supposedly heartfelt “feelings” about things like derivatives (“I feel like the derivative has to do with rate of change”),— the sharing of emotions generated by the proper drawing of a Lewis-dot diagram (“I feel like there’s a double bond between the carbons”), and worst of all, rousing concern with regard to another student’s impressions (“I feel like what he/she said is wrong?...
...what they were doing was exploiting a glitch in the website’s security to access privileged information they were not authorized to see. It’s irrelevant that the instructions to break into the system were easy to follow and required little effort. They knew the proper ways to find out about their admission’s decision and manipulating the website wasn’t one of them...