Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Silknet, Raging Bull and Medical Village preparing to go public and perhaps become the next Lycos or GeoCities, Wetherell's viral growth justifications of wild valuations will continue to be gospel in the Net economy. "David is so confident and so smart," says Bill Martin, 21, a University of Virginia dropout and one of the founders of Raging Bull, a financial Web community half-owned by CMGI. "But he's a guts guy too. When we brought him our idea, he listened, took a conference call and then came back in the room and put 2 million bucks into...
...sense of panic had crept from the 24-hr. "Terror in the Rockies" broadcasts into the statehouses as well. Some were more panicked than others: California Governor Gray Davis spoke of the importance of guidance counselors, but, reflecting the differences in the men and their states, Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore ordered superintendents to report any potentially dangerous student to police immediately. School districts are alarmed by the governmental consternation. Just last week, 150 calls were directed to Russ Ebersole, who runs a small but suddenly lucrative Bethesda, Md., firm that takes $500 from schools to bring in Labrador retrievers that...
...usually up to the parent to make sure a child isn't compartmentalized. "I tell my kids that if somebody gives them a hard time about checking black and white, come get me, and I'll take care of it for them," says Edwin Darden, a Virginia father of two biracial kids who successfully pushed for a multiracial box on his school-district forms...
...latest in a growing trend of age-skewed Hollywood hook-ups, Entrapment follows an intricate game of cat and mouse played out by Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery), a master thief, and Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones), an insurance investigator who's looking to beat MacDougal at his own game. It's in the mold of a twisty-turny, psychological spy thriller, complete with deceit, intrigue, romance, and double-crossing...
Starr's methods, however, will be debated again next month in the trial of Julie Hiatt Steele of Virginia, whom he has accused of obstructing justice and making false statements. At one level, it shapes up as a petty personal contest between Steele and Kathleen Willey, the woman who said Clinton groped her in November 1993. Steele, who was Willey's friend, contradicts Willey's claim that she told Steele about the incident...