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...other hand, the World Fund, with about 70 members, manages about $14,000, mostly in hi-tech stocks like Sun Microsystems and 3COM. Fund managers look to gain in the short-term by finding undervalued high-growth companies. Yield thus far for 1998 is 13 percent or roughly...
Voicing complaints about the state of movie-making is always frustrating. Defenders of the status quo will inevitably claim that the American people want to see high-tech action flicks with hackneyed plots. The truth, however, is that we are tricked into seeing blockbuster films by carefully crafted media blitzes and the draw potential of Hollywood heartthrobs. We all can remember when we went to see a film such as Armageddon even though our friends told us it was awful. Like insects that fly into the light after watching their comrades burst into flames, we convince ourselves that a movie...
...questioning of his star witness was already going poorly when independent counsel Donald Smaltz dumped a glass of water on the computer equipment. As Smaltz tried to make light of the situation, the liquid seeped into the circuitry, shorting out the only high-tech courtroom in Washington's federal courthouse and forcing a recess in the trial of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy...
...structure of the company goes back only 25 years, the all-male cast has been the defining feature of the Pudding since the late 18th century. Furthermore, when Harvard merged with Radcliffe in 1972 Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) almost immediately opened up the other parts of the company--band, tech, and business--to women. Alumni say that just a decade later the Pudding show was known as one of the few communities on campus that was accepting of openly gay students. This clearly runs contrary to Johnson's claim that the Pudding show contains "sexist and homophobic discourse...
...course; someone has to marry the beautiful people in marketing. But many of the Redmond kids will be frighteningly smart mutants. There's no telling how far this evolutionary shortcut can go. Each generation of geniuses will be smarter and start working younger. It's possible that the high-tech companies of the future could be managed entirely via inter-fetus telepathy. Some entrepreneurs will cash out their stock options and retire before they are born...