Word: classical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great Silicon Valley divide between techies and money people, Omidyar admits, he's a classic technowonk. A computer buff in high school and a computer-science major at Tufts University, he fit all the stereotypes. "I was the typical nerd or geek," he says. "I forget which one is the good one now." After his junior year, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for a programming internship and never looked back...
Attacking from the Internet is Amazon.com the Web superstore that began selling toys this summer and plans to do to eToys what it did to CDnow in the online music business--knock it out of the top spot. Attacking from the street as well as from cyberspace are the classic "bricks-and-mortar" retailers Toys "R" Us and KB Toys, which were written off as Net players after the last holiday season but this year have developed online offshoots...
...talking about the responsibilities of fame and how it should be used for good, Damon breaks off. "Oh God," he says. "I sound like Miss America." He seems to have an acute sense of what others, particularly reporters, want to hear. He talks sports with the guys. He does classic movie routines with the show-biz old-timers. To a thirtysomething female, he talks mostly about his mother...
With regained momentum, the Crimson heads out to the Mariucci Classic at the University of Minnesota, a round robin that features the University of Northern Michigan (13-4-1, 9-2-1 CCHA) and UMass (4-8-2, 0-6-1 Hockey East) in addition to the host Golden Gophers (6-10-2, 4-6-2 WCHA...
Once you've resurrected a classic family moment or two, you can put the edited footage back on VHS or compress it for delivery over the Net. For my first project, I dug up tapes of my brother performing in grade school productions of The Boyfriend and The Wizard of Oz to string together his solos (he was the Lion). Now all I need is his girlfriend's e-mail address...