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These two companies symbolize the struggle between investors who like their technology stocks to offer hard assets, proven earnings and a price roughly in line with market multiples, vs. those traders who are willing to pay a much higher price for rapid growth. The latest returns favor Intel. In a tough week that saw most stocks retreat, the market seemed eager to pay 30 times this year's earnings for Intel. Its stock held steady as Yahoo lost 8% of its value. Yet both stocks still managed to outshine the larger averages, as they've done for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Intel or Yahoo? | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...would be strong and honest. An electorate that condones deceit deserves the contempt that such deceit implies. Even liberals who rightly believe that there are only a few moral absolutes in life should agree that while we can all tolerate some fudging and shading, we can't condone a proven...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: The Replaceable President | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

...course, there are also plenty of shoot-outs between the Enterprise and the Son'a fleet. In traditional Star Trek fashion, though, the movie is about more than a battle between "good" and "bad" guys. Picard repeatedly warns against the historically proven dangers of forcibly relocating a group of people to serve the needs of another race. Moralistically, the one thing missing from this movie is the influence of the non-human, "rational" viewpoint--usually provided by Spock in the old Star Trek series and by the android Data (Brent Spiner) in the Next Generation. In this film, far from...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Nimbed Generation Goes Where It's Gone Before | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...Saddam Hussein and the other enemies of peace may have thought that the serious debate currently before the House of Representatives would distract Americans, weaken our resolve to face them down", he said. "But once more, the United States has proven that although we are never eager to use force, when we must act in America's vital interests we will...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Orders Airstrikes In Iraq | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

...framers designed our government so that the problems of one official would not cripple the State. We are gratified to see that their architecture seems to have proven sound. Just because the president has acted rightly in this military situation does not change the fact that he should be impeached for his domestic crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Impeachment Not Problem | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

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