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...Dartmouth's Aires, Iowa State's Shaggy Boys and Virginia Tech's Juxtaposition have been nominated for Best Male-Group Album...
...tech runup of 1996-2000 was largely, Soros now says, a result of wrong ideas. Remember when folks predicted 200% revenue growth for Amazon.com in 2000? That was a mistake. The firm came in at less than half that. In Soros' mind, the beating that has hit Amazon and other stocks since then is the result of investors selling their mistakes. Soros among them. He hopped on the tech boat just long enough for his fund to sink 22%. As we said, mistakes break fortunes...
...stats like that and the stock up 51% since Jan. 1, the New Economy pundits are scratching their heads. How is it that a flea-market auction site has become the most successful company in cyberspace? And when so many other dotcoms are crashing and burning, will this high-tech highflyer come down to earth anytime soon...
...occurred to Kopelman--a twenty-something University of Pennsylvania grad and high-tech entrepreneur--that online auctions had a flaw. They didn't work well for mass-produced items whose value was certain. So he decided to create an e-tailing site called "ebazon." Like eBay, it would connect individual buyers and sellers to trade low-cost, used goods. Like Amazon, it would offer simplicity of use and fixed prices...
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