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...spending 85% of his time on banking and 15% on stock research. Many analysts had investment-banking bonuses written into their contracts. In an interview with FORTUNE last year, Mary Meeker, the analyst at Morgan Stanley who was dubbed "queen of the Net" for her connections in Silicon Valley, spoke freely of her interest in IPOs and investment banking. A 1999 Wall Street Journal article reported that star technology banker Frank Quattrone at Credit Suisse First Boston enjoyed "unusual autonomy," which included tech analysts' reporting directly to him. CSFB has since removed that autonomy and any investment-banking kickers from...
Sasha Souza, an event planner in Napa Valley, Calif., says that "the couple sets the tone. If your mother refuses to be in the same room with your stepmother, you just have to say, 'Mom, I'm sorry you feel that way, but it's your choice to not come if you don't want.'" Etiquette dictates that invited family members be allowed to bring a spouse or guest of their choosing to the wedding, whether or not others in the family--including the bride--approve of that person. All of these decisions have to be handled calmly and well...
...Silicon Valley, copy protection is seen as folly. Not only do geeks treat code cracking as a contact sport, but the software industry has been trying--and failing--to combat piracy for years. "Copy protection is theoretically impossible," says Marc Andreessen, lead inventor of the Netscape browser and currently chairman of the Web-services firm Loudcloud. "All you need is a piece of software that ignores the restrictions. These things are trivial to break...
...most picturesque and unspoiled spots in Thailand. Its name means "mountain points to the sky," and when you arrive you'll realize why. A great finger of earth thrusts up from the Thai border, gesturing heavenward, while hundreds of meters below a seemingly endless valley fans out into Laos, where scattered black peaks sail on a billowing sea of low-lying cloud...
Promoting the growth of the biotech industry in and around Boston has been a major goal of University President Lawrence H. Summers, who has said he hopes the Boston area will become the biotech equivalent of Silicon Valley...