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...Foresters at Boise Cascade in Horseshoe Bend state the case with scientific elaboration. The argument is self-serving, but not necessarily wrong. Dave Van De Graaff, who oversees 195,000 acres as region timberlands manager for Boise Cascade, gives an hour's dissertation on the hazards of mismanaged forest, and argues, "By saying you cannot build roads, they are saying, Let it burn. A lot of the West has too much fuel. It'll burn. We believe the industry is not the problem but a big part of the solution...
There was lots of crime news in the big type too. Over in Utah, a 15-count indictment was handed up against Salt Lake City bid-committee principals Tom Welch and Dave Johnson in connection with the $1.2 million in graft that preceded--led to?--Salt Lake's selection by the International Olympic Committee as host of the 2002 Winter Games. The feds went ballistic on Welch and Johnson because they wouldn't cop a plea to bribing I.O.C. members. The two say they're innocent because schmoozing members at the time wasn't against I.O.C. policy--it was I.O.C...
...Gifford learned to appreciate... well, she learned to appreciate Dave. Sort of like we've learned to accept Kathie Lee herself: As a part of the landscape, the Gypsy Rose Lee of American broadcasting, who's determined to make it - even if she annoys the hell out of everyone she meets on her way there...
That means sitting down at 10 a.m. to pitch meetings like this one with his VC partners and competitors--Brook Byers of Kleiner Perkins, Steven Merrill of Benchmark Capital and CEOs Matt Glickman of BabyCenter.com and Dave Whorton of Springthings.com--to listen to the latest ideas from the world of philanthropy and interrogate the presenters, picking apart their Powerpoint presentations as aggressively as they would a B2B start...
...customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of last Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The A.P. has already hit us," said Dave Lambert, 28, who was waiting with his girlfriend. "You've got two lines here, one interviewing the other." A p.r. woman called out, "Anybody need a sound bite from Scholastic?" A satisfied film crew from ABC's Good Morning America packed up to leave. "We got the cute little girl...