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...news has moved from datelines to the bottom line, it is up to the American public to cry out for objectivity. When I feel a need to be truly and forthrightly updated on the happenings of the world and my area, I tune in to National Public Radio. CONN SCHRADER Queensbury, New York...
...Schrader graduated from Cornell in 1974 and eventually helped run the university's supercomputer center. "I'm not a scientist," he says. "I'm a generalist and a manager of complex scientific organisms that many people don't understand. I'm never responsible for the science, because I don't know enough. I'm not a computer geek; I'm a manager and a business person." The job at Cornell led him to explore links with other computers and, eventually, the Internet. In 1990 he formed his own company, which later became PSINet...
...says Dan Cunningham, the chief financial officer. "Bill kept the company running on his credit cards--Visa and MasterCard, not American Express, because that is a card that you have to pay the bill on every month." In the middle of a rise in the silver market in 1989, Schrader's mother raised several thousand dollars by selling the silver coins she had collected, and invested the proceeds in PSINet. The following day the silver market dropped sharply...
Conservatives and liberals all seem to regard the high-tech entrepreneur as the ideal economic agent. They do so with good reason, for if capitalism is "creative destruction," in Joseph Schumpeter's famous phrase, then people like Marc Andreessen, Steve Jobs, Jeff Braun, Bill Schrader and Doug Colbeth are responsible for the creating part. But is there much that conservative or liberal policies can really do to nurture such enterprise? Would Marc Andreessen work harder under a flat tax? The creating part of capitalism is the part that economic laws do not explain. Like a code writer and his code...
Because the story was written by Ken Lipper, a deputy mayor in the Koch administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters--Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman--and because it was shot in Gotham's city hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. It drops the right names, purrs with silky threats. The ancient code of Mediterranean machismo operates here. You make deals partly to get things done and partly to make deals. It's what...