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...several years, Netscape has been one of a handful of tech firms to really shine among both Wall Street analysts and the bloodhounds of the Fourth Estate. Netscape, along with such darlings as AOL and Pixar, enjoyed very positive press while seeing its initial public offering soar to meteoric levels...
...last week in the silver market, where prices spiked to a nine-year high after Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, disclosed that he had taken a major shine to the metal and bought up 129.7 million oz. of the stuff. That amounts to 37% of the world's aboveground stock of raw silver, according to the CPM group, a commodities and precious-metals consulting firm...
...This little light of mine,/I'm gonna let it shine. " I could sing that to you, if you like. Or I could recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (light reading), or present you with a copy of The Sun Also Rises (an illuminated manuscript...
...enough, Hoolihan finds herself facing the abyss that lies between Jennifer's seemingly ideal life and her own drab existence. "Jennifer Rockwell is inside of me," the cop says, "trying to reveal what I don't want to see." And this, of course, is Amis' mode as well: to shine a flashlight on our seamy undersides and see what crawls...
...picture, take a tour, hear a story. This is where one man decided to free 4 million slaves, others to wage a just war, to build a Great Society, to topple an "evil empire." Great men, when they take custody of the presidency, make the Oval Office shine, stake their claim to a portrait on the creamy walls. Lesser men, at the very least, are expected not to smear mud on them. When Bill Clinton got the keys six years ago, the voters knew he brought a lot of debris with him, joints he didn't inhale and truths...