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...least for now. Over the past two weeks, the rebels' hit-and-run tactics have managed to check the Russians' juggernaut offensive, inflicting politically humiliating attacks on Russia's superior forces and politically damaging body counts. Even if Russia has regained control of the battlefield, the guerrillas have melted away to plot new surprises. Acting President Vladimir Putin's confident prediction of imminent victory--and his triumphal glide to the presidency in March--is slipping toward the Chechen quagmire...
...customer-acquisition costs are only part of the red ink," Sharma warns, "then your cost of doing business is too high or you're not charging enough, and you won't be able to survive." A lot of the reasons Amazon has done so well--bigger warehouses, superior customer service, low prices--have kept it deep in red ink. It will be harder for lesser-known e-commerce companies to get away with that. "Investors," Sharma says, "will become less and less tolerant of the money losers...
...planet. To admit that life is 99.9 percent continuum (human nature and weather itself being more or less constant, with certain variations, and things tending to even out over the centuries, except for occasional ice ages) might make the man feel ordinary - or, in any case, not sufficiently superior to millions of his predecessors who, after all, suffer the hugely disqualifying human defect of being, at the present time, dead. Being alive brings with it a certain prestige, and a tendency to exaggerate...
Penn and Princeton are clearly the class of the league, boasting superior talent and depth. And when both teams begin Ivy League play on January 28--the Quakers at Columbia, the Tigers at Cornell--all eyes will be on them as the quest for the Ivy crown begins...
...poll-driven politics. He calls himself a crusader against corporate tax loopholes, yet came out in support of ethanol subsidies that chiefly benefit one conglomerate, Archer Daniels Midland, because he wants to curry favor with Iowa farmers. "What's fatal," says a Gore strategist, "is holding yourself up as superior...