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...mania for speed (Jordan can barely sit still through an interview) and impatience with mediocrity sit at the center of eBay's phenomenal growth. A veteran of the entertainment industry and a former management consultant, Jordan was tempted away from a doomed dotcom by his former boss at Disney (now eBay CEO), Meg Whitman. At the time, in 1999, eBay had 400 employees; now it has 5,600. Its share price has grown 33-fold. Worldwide, $23 billion in transactions will pass through the eBay marketplace in 2003. Jordan's U.S. arm handles $14 billion of that. "There...
...contains a lot more information about Roman engineering techniques and volcanology than your average Tom Clancy, and there are moments when the story feels like just an excuse to show off another nifty piece of research. Still, if Pompeii lumbers heavily at first, it eventually picks up speed, helped along by squalls of flying lava and gusts of uncommonly sharp writing, as well as by the undeniable pathos of Harris' most successful character, the great natural philosopher Pliny, who insists on recording his observations of Vesuvius up to the moment when it sweeps away heroes and villains alike...
Given the large ice rink at the Whittemore Center, Harvard switched to an L forecheck in order to keep the play more compact and thus take away any home-ice advantage. Large rinks accentuate passing and speed...
...devaluation be kept at bay. Now that the pact is practically dead, each and all will feel free to do as they please. Think about European monetary union as a train made up of 12 cars, which represent the national economies. Unless all of them move at the same speed, the train will derail. But the problem goes deeper still. The European Union is embroiled in a tortuous constitution-making process that brought its Foreign Ministers to Naples late last week. Britain, Poland and Spain have been voicing grave misgivings about relinquishing ever-more sovereignty to this non-nation that...
...British and Israeli interests; Hizballah wants to prove it is back." Hizballah's potential involvement could prove embarrassing to Turkey's security forces, which once cultivated the group as a proxy militia in their 15-year war against Kurdish separatists. That old association probably accounts for the astonishing speed with which investigators rounded up their suspects. "These men were known to [the police]," says Emin Sirin, a former member of parliament for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. "They are no strangers...