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...boulders, coral reefs and gently slapping waves. You can rent a bungalow for $5 a day. The boys and girls seem to be young, thin and beautiful. They convene from all over the globe: club kids from London, bar hostesses from Tokyo, English teachers from Taipei, tech refugees from Silicon Valley--all looking to partake of this new civilization on the island that has become synonymous with hedonistic decadence...
Michael Lewis wrote Trail Fever, a chronicle of the '96 campaign. His latest book is The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
...keep legal eagles hungry, law firms are taking some of the money that goes to partners--who typically earn a seven-figure "draw"--and redirect it to associates, who do much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations...
While Cambridge can't exactly be called a second Silicon Valley, the technology growth and development that has occurred with start-up companies here has been significant, often attracting people from larger companies...
Unlike Lloyd and his friends, Alpert didn't found his own company. But as a former president of the Harvard Computer Society, he decided to accelerate his graduation to take advantage of a job offer in Silicon Valley...