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...mode isn't just a fancy cell-phone service. It's the vanguard of Japan's hottest company, NTT DoCoMo Inc., which is making inroads and investments all over the globe, including a 16% piece of AT&T Wireless, which it bought for $9.8 billion. DoCoMo plans to wage the next great wireless war based on the idea that you will no longer need to carry an assortment of Palm Pilots, Blackberrys, Discmen, pagers and phones to keep in touch or keep in tunes. In DoCoMo's world, you'll carry only a single broadband phone to e-mail friends...
...with a moral dilemma. These die-harders are forced to realize that their file-sharing has decreased the demand for their pet artists, and is financially hurting those they love. This smaller, more vocal, and active subclass of Napster users inevitably comes to believe that it is in the vanguard of an advancing tide of revolution...
...when the INS does try to enforce the law in the workplace, it can incur powerful opposition. Take Operation Vanguard, launched in September 1998 to target the undocumented workers on whom the Nebraska meat-packing industry relies. The agency subpoenaed the records of slaughterhouses and informed the factories that it would interview 4,762 employees--a fifth of the state's meat packers--about discrepancies in their documents...
Russia is still far from a healthy free market. But Browder is determined to persevere. His battles in Russia's unbridled market have pushed him to the vanguard of investors, both foreign and native, who yearn for a rule of law in Russia. Of course, not everyone in the country is ready to fight fair. But Bill Browder is prepared to keep his guard up and go the distance...
...Vanguard Endowment Program 196 million...