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...since Bill Gates took Microsoft public in 1986 has Wall Street witnessed anything like the wealth-creating power of today's Internet stocks. Consider Amazon.com an online bookseller that has lost more than $30 million since 1995 with nary a penny of profit in sight. No matter. Amazon's $5 billion in market value exceeds the combined capitalization of Barnes & Noble and Borders Group, the two largest U.S. bookstore chains. The rise of No. 1 search engine Yahoo has been no less phenomenal. It stood at $181 a share last week after reporting second-quarter earnings of $8.1 million--following...
FOUNDED The conference was named after the hotel in Oosterbeck, a town in the Netherlands where the first conference took place under the chairmanship of Dutch Prince Bernhard...
...scene that played out two days later at a nearby hotel was a little less by the book. Flanked by armed guards, Christopher So, the man who led Los Angeles police to Markhasev, took center stage and pocketed a $100,000 reward for helping solve the case. The check was issued by the National Enquirer, which had posted the hefty reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Cosby's killer. For his payday, the tabloid had generously outfitted So in a baseball cap sporting the cheeky logo ENQUIRING MINDS...
Abraham Lincoln took the band with him to Gettysburg on a special train and at one point escaped to a seat up front with his beloved musicians. The band played a Lincoln favorite, the hymn Old Hundredth, right after the prayer that opened the cemetery dedication in which Lincoln gave the world a text of American meaning...
...money despite the increase in readership and media attention Brown had brought it. "I can't imagine a more abysmal failure than to sell the soul of a magazine and then lose money in the process," says Garrison Keillor, a former contributor who famously left as soon as Brown took over. "A couple of years of meetings at Miramax will be good penance...