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...launched Alibaba, a business-to-business site that became profitable in 2002 and last year did about $70 million in sales. In 2003, he started Taobao?"searching for treasure" in Mandarin?and he plainly reveled in playing David to Whitman's Goliath. He gleefully tells of being shut out of eBay Live, the company's annual gathering of members of its e-commerce "community,'' because many sellers use Alibaba as a supplier. "We were going to eBay Live to make love, not war, and they canceled us," he says. "Can you believe that...
...October 2002, West, exhausted from hours spent in a recording studio, fell asleep behind the wheel of his Lexus and nearly died. "He called me from his hospital bed with his jaw wired shut and asked for a drum machine," says Dash. "That impressed me." Three weeks after the accident, with his jaw still shut, West went to a studio and mumbled Through the Wire, a song about the crash built on the accelerated chorus of Chaka Khan's Through the Fire. It was dramatic and funny ("I drink a Boost for breakfast, a Ensure for dizzert/ Somebody ordered pancakes...
...largely responsible for television's cult hit Freaks and Geeks and did all right with last year's Anchorman, has something of a magician's skill with misdirection. The film's core audience gets all the vulgarity it could possibly require. But adults with reflexes quick enough to shut their eyes and cover their ears when they feel the stupidity coming on may, from time to time, feel a twinge of amused compassion for this ensemble of doofuses. --By Richard Schickel
...have been all but phased out. Garbage dumps and piles of entrails left behind by elk hunters lure grizzlies into areas where they are more likely to be hit by cars or run into people who have to kill them in self-defense. But again, many dumps have been shut down, and the Wyoming game and fish department is working with hunting groups to make sure kills and their related waste products aren't left lying about...
Following the lead of several Boston-area schools, Harvard announced today that a limited number of students enrolled at universities and colleges shut down by Hurricane Katrina would be welcomed this fall at the University...