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...lady at the table in the center of the room is shouting like a high school cheerleader. It's April 1998, and George W. Bush is standing in front of a huge plate-glass window that frames much of Silicon Valley. Bush is out near Sand Hill Road, home to the venture capitalists, and he is talking with unusual passion about education, the New Economy and his record in Texas. The small banquet room is overflowing with VCs, dotcomers and gearheads who have paid $1,000 a plate to meet the man who might be the next President. Some arrived...
...setting over the luxury resorts of Kona, on Hawaii's Big Island. Warm tropical breezes waft lazily through the palms. Honeymooning couples sip mai tais by the pool as waves break gently on white sand...
...smoking guns, maybe, but there have been newsmaking incidents, like that little fund raiser held by the sand-and-gravel industry a few years ago for a state-senate committee chairman the day before he was to consider a bill helpful to the industry. (He denies being swayed.) And earlier this year, senate majority leader Chellie Pingree received a letter from a Pfizer Corp. lobbyist saying the firm would no longer contribute to state Democrats after she and the house speaker pushed the prescription-drug bill...
...going to try to keep a dialogue with these universities, maybe point them to some authority that they've ignored or are not aware of that tells them they have a higher responsibility than just putting their heads in their sand," he said shortly after Harvard announced its decision...
When former biotech analyst Peter Freudenthal floated a plan for a publicly traded venture-capital fund last year, he learned how radical an idea it was. As he made the rounds of the venture capitalists on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif., he found they didn't want to open their cozy world to hordes of retail investors. VCs were doing fine logging triple-digit gains by making early bets on dotcoms before they went public and swimming in cash raised from the likes of pension funds and the wealthiest individual investors...