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Bush loyalists have a ready answer for that charge. The old days of the smoke-filled rooms, says an aide, produced better candidates than the current primary process that has seen Lamar Alexander campaign nonstop for six years. "The genius of the old system was that people with the interests of the party at heart made decisions," the Bush aide argues. "They knew the guys' characters: He's got it, he doesn't. He's clean, he's a slimeball. Clinton wouldn't have got very far under that system...
...unlikely that many of the survivors will come from the current crop of Internet stocks making their debuts as IPOs. Now on the docket are many also-rans, third or fourth to market with second-tier managements. Take PCQuote.com which filed last Wednesday to raise $100 million. It competes in the already jammed area of financial data, which includes TheStreet.com Reuters and others. "How new is that? Let's go watch paint dry," sniffs David Menlow of the research firm IPO Financial Network...
Others from the current crop of Net IPOs may represent new opportunities, but in niche--and thus limited--markets. Still others are so nascent that they are little more than a concept hoping to cash in quickly. Profits? They don't even have revenue. Drugstore.com an online prescription-drug company, has filed for an IPO even though it has only three months of formal results. The IPO may do well anyway. The company has a top-notch underwriter in Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. It is the first online company of its kind to attempt to sell shares to the public...
...websites were restored. The leper was promoted to general manager and put in charge of the crazed swine, who, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, had to be kept in their current positions. Most of them were vice presidents, though, so it didn't affect the value of Microsoft stock...
Gore's interest in the Balkans goes back long before the current crisis. While still in Congress, he was denouncing Slobodan Milosevic on the Senate floor when few Americans had even heard of him; in his first week as Bill Clinton's running mate, he pressed the Arkansas Governor to make the Balkans a foreign policy priority. But now the whole endeavor is playing out in peculiarly personal terms for Gore: the success of a Kosovo peace plan will bear directly on his run for the presidency...