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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to invest tens of millions of dollars in the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), renovating what Tenney calls "a huge waste of space" into an athletic facility/student center...

Author: By Tonisha M. Calbert and David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Profile of Leonard-Tenney | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...prison stories, Darabont is a man with a slow hand. He wants you to share the agony of ennui felt by jailbirds whose only job is marking time while scheming to escape or waiting to die--just like the rest of us. In The Shawshank Redemption he managed to invest this anxious leisure with tension and transcendence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing Hard Time On Death Row | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Softbank's basic plan is simple: invest early and often. By buying more tickets in the e-commerce game than anyone else, the company improves its chances of winning the lottery--even if there is a massive shakeout. In effect, Citizen Son is establishing the world's first virtual conglomerate. He wants to be the patriarch of a loose but fiercely loyal network of companies that span the globe, feeding each other and starving the competition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masayoshi Son: Emperor of the Internet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Even so, the scale of Softbank's ambitions could transform e-commerce. In a world where every company, every billionaire with spare change, is forming an Internet investment arm, the competition for start-up dollars is shifting into a battle over who gets to invest in the next hot company. Son's premise is simple: there may be a litter of online pet-supply stores today, but only the best will survive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Masayoshi Son: Emperor of the Internet | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...because I invest so much love and hope in Apple, it maddens me when the company falls short of its plug-and-play promise. And too often it does. Take the AirPort and iBook setup I tested. The idea behind it is deliciously simple; the setup was another story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in an AirPort | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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