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...barely sit still through an interview) and impatience with mediocrity sit at the center of eBay's phenomenal growth. A veteran of the entertainment industry and a former management consultant, Jordan was tempted away from a doomed dotcom by his former boss at Disney (now eBay CEO), Meg Whitman. At the time, in 1999, eBay had 400 employees; now it has 5,600. Its share price has grown 33-fold. Worldwide, $23 billion in transactions will pass through the eBay marketplace in 2003. Jordan's U.S. arm handles $14 billion of that. "There's a friendly competition...
...Jordan has made himself popular with eBay's community of more than 100,000 merchants by responding to their e-mails. Though Whitman isn't planning to step aside soon, Jordan seems to be laps ahead of anyone else in the race to succeed her. After all, it's hard to compete with a Tasmanian Devil. --By Chris Taylor/San Francisco
...Friday, the No. 3 Harvard men’s squash team saw its freshmen compete in an official match for the first time as sophomore intercollegiate No. 6 Will Broadbent and captain No. 21 Ziggy Whitman watched from the sidelines. The Crimson (1-0, 1-0 Ivy) opened its season by overwhelming No. 9 Brown (0-1, 0-1 Ivy) 9-0. Harvard did not drop a single game throughout the contest...
They were supposed to be good, but not exactly this dominant off the bat, stepping up to fill in for Broadbent and Whitman...
...back with a new book, Bruce Springsteen’s America: The People Listening, a Poet Singing. Dr. Coles describes the effect of Springsteen’s music on his audience while demonstrating why Springsteen deserves a place among America’s greatest literary talents, including Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Dorothea Lange and Walker Percy, specifically focusing on their commonality of inspiration: America’s common people. In Coles’ interpretation, Springsteen embodies American culture and engages it, shaping a distinct version of American life. This study comes on the heels of such best...