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...company turned its first profit in 2004, and went public on the Nasdaq the following year, raising more than $100 million in the process. It was by far the most successful Internet IPO since the dotcom bubble burst in 2000. One of its earliest investors, in fact, was Google - before the company entered the China market in 2006. It paid $5 million for a 2.6% stake in Baidu in 2004. But Google sold its stake in Baidu for about $60 million two years later, and entered the search business in China on its own. It was game...
...instruction manual, no warranty - sealed the certainty of adulthood in a way no car keys or paycheck or mortgage ever had. Their birthdays loomed so large that ours could discreetly recede. My diet would soon include, once again, cupcakes and macaroni and applesauce. The first time we all went to the circus, I felt 6 years old too. (See iPhone apps for new moms...
...both the Harvard College student body and the United States itself, the newspaper remains a deeply American institution. Only four of the 137th guard’s 95 executives—with apologies to an editor who hails from London, England but was principally educated in Manhattan—went to high schools outside the United States. The troubling conclusion is that The Crimson is less than half as international as the student body as a whole. It would be irresponsible at best for the leadership of The Crimson to not consider both the reasons for this and its implications...
...study. I am not dismissive of the security concerns of the United States and Egypt, and my request was entirely reasonable—I did not ask the embassy for endorsement or special assistance. On the contrary, on Dec. 27, the first full day I was in Cairo, I went to the embassy and told them why I was in Egypt. They brought me a sworn affidavit, which I willingly signed, stating that I understood that the State Department had determined that travel to the Gaza Strip was unsafe. The affidavit explicitly states, “I assume the risk...
Sophomore guard Oliver McNally followed with two threes in the next two minutes to ice the game. McNally, who came off the bench for the first time this season, went 4-of-5 from deep and finished with 14 points...