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...Except for one undisputable one: Takafumi Horie himself. The college dropout, who started what became Livedoor in 1997, is the author of no fewer than 17 books celebrating his moneymaking, cash-grabbing ethos, with titles like ?Earning Money is Everything: From Zero to 10 Billion Yen My Way?. He appeared to be living proof of his boast. Over the past five fiscal years, Livedoor has acquired 27 companies, increasing revenue 22-fold to nearly $800 million. He has also been an aggressive financial democrat, constantly splitting his stock so that younger and less well-off Japanese can afford to become...
...battle of the Hills Tribe and the Square Tribe, he expects to be the survivor. He has scoffed at disaster before. Once, while he was at the top of the world, Horie said that ?even if you fail, the worst that you can end up with is zero. You can always reset.? No doubt he now realizes there is one result even worse than zero-and that?s jail...
...chance in the stuffy atmosphere. Further soothed by a lullaby of turning pages and tapping keys, is it any wonder that Lamont’s midnight tenants yield to sleep? Could this, rather than Harvard’s natural exhibitionism, be the real reason behind Primal Scream? Come sub-zero temperatures, it is only natural that students should burst enthusiastically from their overheated study zone to engage in this animalistic ritual. Their hopes of cooling off in the Yard’s frigid environment might have been disappointed by this year’s mild weather, but it must have...
...records to be subpoenaed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. An article in The Washington Times yesterday first drew parallels between CAP and the Owl, but a spokeswoman for Kennedy called the comparison “absurd.” “This social club has zero in common with CAP, an organization designed to promote an agenda that rolled back the clock on equality and justice,” the spokeswoman, Laura Capps, said in an interview on Wednesday night. Capps noted that when Kennedy graduated from the College in 1956, women from Radcliffe had just begun to attend...
...said he was looking for a radio but there was zero music,” said Jobson, who is also a Crimson editor. “Our reaction was that he had to have been looking for something else...