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...Coop bookstore saw sales go up significantly this weekend, said floor manager Joseph Nathan, though he said he could not release exact figures. Nathan said that sales have improved since late July and that the fall releases of works by popular authors like Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe have driven sales...
...group, publisher HarperCollins, filmmaker 20th Century Fox and satellite-TV firm DirecTV. Malone, 63, wants to resuscitate his image as a brilliant dealmaker and operator. Murdoch, 73, who has offices secured by fingerprint ID technology and keeps a tight rein on the company he built, is driven to pass on the business to his children...
...climbs in circles of ever increasing altitude for an hour. Just when you think White Knight has disappeared from sight, SpaceShipOne separates and ignites its engine, which is fueled by nitrous oxide and rubber, and a plume of white smoke shoots straight up into the sky. Unlike the computer-driven shuttle, SpaceShipOne is controlled by an old-fashioned mechanical stick and rudder. That makes the altitude climb hair-raising for the pilot. "It's going faster than a speeding bullet," says Melvill, who piloted the vehicle's first flight, "and you're trying to control it by hand...
...ours. Because we do have a government in which we try to include everybody, it's complicated as hell. When the Founding Fathers set it up, who in the world could have ever envisioned some of the complicated things we get involved in now, which very often are driven by almost a religious belief--like gun control, partial-birth abortion, gay marriage. I think we get driven an awful lot of times by those narrowly focused constituent groups. Sometimes we listen to those real volatile special interests more than doing the work that most people want--and that's staying...
Campbell: If you look at the spectrum of Senators, you're going to find a few who are pretty much driven from the right and a few who are driven from the left. And you're going to find a whole lot more somewhere in the middle. But both parties are driven by constituent groups. We tend to lean on them very heavily, [so Senators will] be good soldiers rather than try to find something in the middle. And that's the way it is often reported in the press with the use of athletic terms--particularly boxing terms...