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Lonnie Sue Johnson By NOAM COHEN The Internet can seem an all-knowing, mysterious oracle. Type in a question, hit a button and an answer magically appears. Yet oracles earn their robes not for providing trivia (“Caesar, did you know that “ides” is a Latin term…

Jul 5th 2007 From The Economist print editionPrivate equity has come in for much political criticism, but its more serious problems are financial    FOR the past few years the wild men of private equity have rampaged through the public markets. They have ventured into the drowsy glades…