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...DIED. DAVE DEBUSSCHERE, 62, one of the early titans of the National Basketball Association, the youngest coach in its history and last commissioner of the defunct American Basketball Association; in New York City. DeBusschere, who was more than two meters tall, started his career with the Detroit Pistons in 1962 and was made player-coach for the team two years later, at the age of 24. In 1968, DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he won the NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. As the Knicks' executive vice president, DeBusschere drafted the legendary Patrick Ewing...
...blueprints. I thought he was kidding, but found he was serious." Committee members also point to a Penn State student who referred to the prestigious journalism award as the "Pullet Surprise." "U.S. students, parents and taxpayers are investing billions of dollars a year in higher education," says Dave Schnittger, communications director of the HEWC, which will hold a hearing on the issue next week. "Someone has to ask what kind of return they're getting." --By Perry Bacon...
...Broadly speaking, NASCAR Democrats are rural, conservative voters—presumably fans of stock car racing—who normally back the GOP. Therefore, Graham will likely try to broaden his base with appeals to rural interests and elements of Republican social policy. Two of his campaign strategists, Dave Saunders and Steve Jarding, used similar tactics in helping Democrat Mark Warner win the Virginia gubernatorial race...
Other credit unions are aggressively swallowing smaller ones, aiming to gain the critical mass to become more like one-stop financial-service centers. Since 1995, Dallas-based Advancial has acquired 15,000 new members at 250 companies, including Perot Systems and Brinker International. Advancial's head of strategic development, Dave Selsky, courts companies whose employees have good credit ratings and steady jobs and turns down one-third of the firms that want to join. As a result of such policies, Advancial is rated one of the nation's safest credit unions...
...Dave Winer is a fellow at the Berkman Center of Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He is the editor of Scripting News (www.scripting.com), one of the longest-running weblogs on the Internet...