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...jury said, it doesn't matter how they are published. (In another blow to the Nuremberg Files, its Internet service provider shut it down late last week; its backers are likely to look for a new home.) Last week's rulings suggest that Net speech protection will be robust but not absolute. You can't shout, "Fire!" in a crowded theater. And you can't shout, "Ready, aim, fire!" in cyberspace...
...Russia last summer; a hedge fund blessed with two Nobel prizewinners blew up in an afternoon, nearly taking Wall Street with it; and Brazil's currency, the real, sambaed and swayed and then swooned. In the past 18 months 40% of the world's economies have been tugged from robust growth into recession or depression...
...late-night phone calls, in marathon meetings and over bagels, orange juice and quiche, these three men--Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan and Larry Summers--are working to stop what has become a plague of economic panic. Their biggest shield is an astonishingly robust U.S. economy. Growth at year's end was north of 5%--double what economists had expected--and unemployment is at a 28-year low. By fighting off one collapse after another--and defending their economic policy from political meddling--the three men have so far protected American growth, making investors deliriously, perhaps delusionally, happy in the process...
...last six months, however, the robust sales of Apple's new candy-colored wonder, the iMAC, propelled its national market share to about 10 percent once again...
...adolescent values. While it may seem counterintuitive to think of Intel as old tech, the market values hardware makers by a much more stringent standard than the newer Net businesses. Even though Intel and Seagate, the largest maker of personal-computer disk drives, signaled that sales are extremely robust, they are still in an industry that will be lucky to grow 20% in 1999. Yahoo, by contrast, is in a business that seems to double every six months. Its stock is up 14% in the first half of January, after rising 584% in 1998. If advertisers come to view...