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...allies, Saddam employed maneuvers that suggest he has learned lessons from the first Gulf War. His military has abandoned the wide open deserts that made its tanks easy targets for U.S. attacks in 1991. Instead the Iraqis have burrowed into the cities and the verdant Euphrates river valley, where U.S. forces have more difficulty spotting them...
Tennis Experience: Varsity doubles, junior and senior years of high school. “We were in Michigan’s Saginaw Valley League, which included Midland, Saginaw and Flint. The other school from Midland beat us all the time. When we played Flint, we usually had to explain the rules of tennis. We beat them sometimes...
Looking back now, we recognize that Netscape was simply the blueprint, the unchoreographed start of what would become the greatest bull-market show in history. Taken to market by Frank Quattrone, the now fallen investment banker who would turn Silicon Valley greener than irrigation made the San Joaquin; nurtured by analyst Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley, who would later admit that she was "trying to value companies without any historical valuation tools or rules;" and overfed by hyped-up traders who could buy stock online using their Netscape browser, this deal changed everything. We began to classify every company...
That community provides both demand and enhanced funding power. Ten years ago, when the museum was in difficult straits, Chong-Moon Lee, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur born in Seoul, was invited to lunch by South Korea's consul general in San Francisco, who told him the museum desperately needed $1 million to stay afloat. "The consul general was crying," Lee recalls. "Then I started crying. I was so emotional, I wrote him a $1 million check on the spot." Two years later, when the museum set out to raise money for its new, $160 million home, it began with...
...economy sours and the job pool dries up, it may come as some small comfort that there is at least one potential employer who is still willing to wine and dine in order to lure potential employees. Cakebread Cellars, a vineyard in Napa Valley, recently invited 10 members of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Wine and Cuisine Society to spend their intersession in California to entice them to pursue careers in the wine-making industry. It seems that Cakebread Cellars is capitalizing on the fact that it’s just hard to say “no?...