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With dotcoms imploding and voter apathy growing, this may seem an ill-omened time to launch a for-profit political website. Yet the Republican Convention swarmed last week with a new breed of dotcoms that offered everything from predictable punditry to floor-panning, 360[degree] webcams that online viewers could swivel with the click of a mouse...
...greenhouse. The results are predictable--especially if you're a fan of that most basic of English comic genres, in which simple, provincial folk foil the bumbling law in order to preserve a traditional way of life. Grace is not as tightly wound as the best of its breed, but it is a genial way to pass the time...
...Cabinet meetings he did not sit in on, complains that "Cheney comes back from the White House and tells nothing." Pete Williams, an NBC News correspondent who was for years Cheney's press spokesman, used to joke about how the capital was full of Che-ney watchers, a breed like Kremlin watchers, who would try to fathom the man's thinking from whatever small signs he gave...
...revolution started: average investors began to go online instead of using traditional brokers. Now there's a new front: a few of these average investors are taking a role in selecting the stocks in their mutual funds, assuming a duty once left to professionals. This new breed of lay analysts is cropping up far away from Wall Street. Kathy Dimler is a perfect example. The Fairport, N.Y., mother of two culls financial information from magazines, websites and television, even following the ticker on her computer while she makes lunch for her sons Alex, 3, and Mark...
...past year, a new breed of ETF, called iShares, has taken wing. Formerly known as WEBs and primarily built around foreign stock indexes, it was dusted off by Barclays Global Investors this year, renamed and expanded to include specific U.S. sectors such as health care, energy and real estate...