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This is not merely an academic issue. It cuts to the heart of a decision faced by businesses large and small: whether to go digital or not. No country has gone further than the U.S. in embracing the computer revolution; no country has a bigger stake in the productivity question. The issue: Are computers worth the billions we lavish on them...
...fall tennis season is mostly a series of individual tournaments where college players are on their own. But the ECAC Tournament taking place Friday through Monday in Princeton, N.J., is a major team tournament at the beginning of this fall season. At stake is a spot representing the region in the NCAA Indoor Tournacment and the top regional ranking once the spring season begins...
...best seller Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. The partners, who worked out of waterfront offices in tony Greenwich, Conn., included Nobel-prizewinning economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton and former Fed Vice Chairman David Mullins. As their price for the bailout, the creditors acquired a 90% stake in the fund, which effectively removed Meriwether and his partners from power. But huge management fees that the partners have collected could still leave some ahead of the game by tens of millions of dollars...
Interest will probably surge following eBay's initial public offering of stock last week. The shares, priced at $18, more than doubled in value by week's end, leaving the firm's founder, Pierre Omidyar, 31, with a stake worth more than $600 million. Inspired by a girlfriend who wanted to trade Pez candy dispensers on the Net, Omidyar launched eBay in 1995 and--a rarity among online companies--almost immediately made money. He charged 25[cents] to $2 for each listing and a commission of 1.25% to 5% on each sale...
...caveat before I proceed: this being October, I'm going to admit to the malaise that curiously befalls most Americans around this time of year, the playoff fever that makes us abdicate good judgment and sound priorities when baseball is t stake...