Word: sonly
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...Force officer's son who attended college on a full scholarship, Saylor announced in March his plan to create an online university that would make an Ivy League-quality education available to all, at no cost. By putting professors' best performances online, Saylor told Time Magazine, "you can make something even better than Harvard." With his $100 million pledge toward accomplishing that goal, it looks as if Saylor's dream is on its way to becoming a reality...
...Kong, but only one Li Ka-shing. Li is a billionaire and a major player in the real estate market, and in retail, telecommunications and power generation. His port operation handles 30% of Hong Kong's trade. His nickname in the press is Superman. Now comes Superboy: Li's son Richard, 33. Last month, Richard took over Cable & Wireless HKT, the territory's telecom giant, using an Internet company he started only 11 months ago called Pacific Century CyberWorks. The deal, valued at $38 billion, was Asia's biggest takeover ever...
...wants to provide fast and flexible interactive television and Internet access, through so-called broadband connections, to the vast populations of China, India and the rest of Asia--and thus become the largest such provider in the world. Dad is on the same wavelength. A week before his son struck the Cable & Wireless deal, Li Sr. went public with a tiny, barely operating Internet company called Tom.com setting off investor hysteria in the streets of Hong Kong. Li says Tom.com will become the biggest portal, or entry site, for Chinese speakers using the Internet--a grand goal...
...companies controlled by father and son together account for more than a quarter of the capitalization of the Hong Kong stock market. In the telecom business alone, Li-controlled companies have 60% of Hong Kong's mobile-phone market and virtually the entire fixed-line system. Bricks and mortar? Li is Hong Kong's property king. Now he and son have displayed highly advanced knowledge of how to prosper in the new era of telecoms and the Internet. Richard, for one, sees these talents as anything but local. "These are truly global transactions," he told TIME. The message: watch...
...focus onto the stalled negotiations between the INS and the Miami Gonzalez family, which are scheduled to resume Thursday. The family issued a statement Thursday inviting Juan Miguel, who is staying at the Maryland residence of Cuba's top diplomat in the U.S. along with his wife and infant son, to their Miami home to resolve Elian's future in a family discussion without lawyers or government officials. But this dispute has, from the beginning, been about members of a family finding themselves on opposite sides of a four-decade-old war, and so much bad blood has passed between...