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...NASDAQ times has no redeeming social value. In its place sit rows and rows of gleaming successes. Last week, on the same day that I saw Wonder Boys, I watched a different bunch of wonder boys (and women) strut their stuff on a TV special called Summit in Silicon Valley. ("Bunch" is wrong for the collective noun. "Grin?") I watched a grin of high-tech billionaires sunning themselves in national adoration, bright models of achievement for every double-breasted hopeful yearning for a Lexus. No one mentioned beautiful losers. The last shall be last...
...reallocation is not just in assets but also in talent. Bankers, lawyers and money managers are fleeing careers in depressed pockets of the market like real estate to hitch a ride to Silicon Valley...
Never mind computers, there weren't many telephones in Sandor Hau's hometown when he was a boy. Hau grew up in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, home to the austere Amish farming community. "Mine isn't a classic Silicon Valley pedigree," jokes Hau, 28, who speaks Korean, English, Japanese and the archaic Amish-German dialect. "I think my family were the only Koreans in the county...
...ultimate prize. While McCain is gaining in L.A. and the Bay Area, he's still weak in G.O.P. areas like Orange County and the Central Valley. Democrats and independents can vote, but only Republicans count toward delegates. The top G.O.P vote getter wins them all. McCain has persuaded almost 22,000 Dems and indies to join the G.O.P...
...Morning Star Trucking Co. hauls bulk tomatoes from fields in California's Central Valley to nearby canneries. And they want you behind the wheel...