Word: view
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...troubled by that view. Shareholders change every day, and many current holders do not have long-term gains. And this isn't just any company. Microsoft is widely held. It has 3 million individual shareholders, and the stock is held in 36% of all U.S. stock funds. It is one of the 10 largest positions in 31% of stock funds, according to Morningstar. The whole idea of the antitrust case is to protect consumers. Yet they own the stock...
Whatever the judge decides, Microsoft at these levels discounts a lot of bad news. My view: value is value, whether it's bundled or in pieces. Let the lawyers worry about appeals and remedies. Focus on fundamentals, and you'll do well in the long...
...Ninja assassinations and the beautiful-but-deadly geisha. But it is in the continuation of politics by other means that Shogun really excels. Battles with neighboring daimyo are conducted in real time on landscapes realistic enough to reveal the shifting shadows of birds' wings. Your own bird's-eye view is ideal for commanding battalions of archers, ashigaru (foot soldiers) and samurai. Up to 7,000 soldiers can appear at the same time, each one moving independently, each one so detailed you see the color of his sandals. This is nothing less than interactive Kurosawa. Shame they don't make...
...ever said lunch had to be about food? The Swan is a massage retreat at this quiet downtown establishment, and like the guest rooms and cozy lobby, it's part of what gives the Claridge the je ne sais quoi that manager Michael Wathen calls "a point of view." The point, he says, is to take a load off, take the edge off business and feel at home among friends--as opposed to jostling a bunch of other suits in a convention center-size lobby littered with bad art. Says Wathen: "We're the anti-Hyatt...
...this-world event, the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., has--what else?--launched a new website called HubbleSite hubble.stsci.edu) where surfers can study the telescope's history, browse Hubble trivia (it has circled Earth 58,400 times), learn more about the cosmos and, of course, view some of the spectacular images the telescope has collected. Quasars and pulsars and supernovas...