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CarOrder: A tough lesson

JK
By:
Joe Kohn
January 29, 2001 05:00 AM

AUSTIN, Texas - Brian Stafford sits at a desk of two card tables, laboriously pecking at a laptop. His office has paper-thin walls not 12 feet apart. He has a chair and a two-shelf bookcase. That's it.

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