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...areas of expansion. It's possible to argue that Bezos didn't master much more than an evolution of commerce, replacing old-fashioned stores with a centralized sales and shipping center. But even that one change, he notes, grabbing a favorite word, is "huge." For old-line businesses like K Mart, getting new customers meant building new stores at a cost of millions. For Bezos, serving new customers costs next to nothing...
Investors clearly think the game is over, rewarding pure-play e-tailers with market capitalizations that dwarf their off-line competitors--Amazon's $32 billion, vs. Sears' and K Mart's combined $17 billion; eToys' $4.5 billion, vs. Toys "R" Us' $3.6 billion; and, even more amazing, airline-ticket broker Priceline.com's $8.3 billion, vs. the combined $8.6 billion market cap of Continental Airlines, US Airways and United Airlines...
Last Tuesday, K. Kyriell Muhammad announced his intention to resign from his position as resident tutor of Mather House after a rash of homophobic acts of vandalism this year. Muhammad's departure at the end of the semester will be a loss to the entire community but is particularly a blow to the 300-plus members of Mather House who had signed a pledge in October endorsing non-discrimination in order to show their support for Muhammad...
...first formal training was classical piano. I was also in a progressive hardcore band with Shawn and Jon called This is My Rifle. And I've been experimenting with electronic music--sequencing, MIDI, a K-2000 sampler...
...K. Kyriell Muhammad, a BGLT tutor in Mather House, announced Monday that he plans to resign in the wake of homophobic vandalism directed against him. Homophobic graffiti was written on a BGLTSA poster on his door and, in earlier incidents, strangers pounded on his door late at night...