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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buried in Yahoo's stellar Wednesday-night earnings report -- sales of $41.2 million, up 36 percent from the beginning of the year; traffic of 115 million daily pageviews in June, up from 95 million in March; a 2-for-1 stock split -- was news that the search standout was raising $250 million by selling new stock to Softbank, which already owns nearly a third of the company. We could all use another $250 million, but what does Yahoo need...
...search for a fresh sound, D'Angelo has recruited an eclectic crew of musicians to work on the new CD, including jazz trumpeter Roy Hargrove. "The mid-to-late '60s was the golden age of soul and funk," says D'Angelo. "It wasn't like now, where you have one producer working for a slew of artists, who all sound the same. Artists are no longer self-contained and are more prone to conform. In the '60s, people were defying what people expected. That's what's missing...
...quick search on the Internet yielded a long list of alternative bands for which it would be plausible to believe that this naming method was used. The Alternative Rock World home page named top groups like Tragically Hip, Econoline Crush, Gravity Kills, Searching for 13, Sprung Monkey and Marcy Playground...
...Citicorp," as Zhong hopes to do. Today, with the economic reform being pressed by Zhu Rongji, the new Premier, the Chinese dream knows no limits. "Making money has become the thing to do in China; people judge you by how wealthy you are," says Zhong. "It is all a search for respect...
There was a fundamental flaw in your selection process. By beginning your search for the 100 with neat categories and subcategories, you oversimplified a complicated century and avoided the most interesting debates. For example, by allowing room for only one writer and one visual artist, you begged the questions, Are writers and artists equally influential? Is a TV host as important? Could there be a second writer whose influence outweighs, say, Bart Simpson, your choice as cartoon character? You effortlessly sidestepped these questions. And so again an interesting idea is dumbed down for an impatient society. PETER MARTINO Roxbury, Conn...