Word: holing
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That seems to be the thinking in media-company headquarters these days, in a landscape where to stand alone is to stand in a hole. "The reason you're seeing so much anxiety everywhere else is that everyone else wishes they'd done it," says Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony Corp. of America, a record company and movie studio that still lacks a broadcast network...
Behind Kelly on the field stands the man with perhaps the heaviest burden of all. Sophomore goalkeeper Mike Meagher must fill the gaping hole left by Jordan Dupuis '99. Dupuis was stellar last season and set the school record for career saves...
...spent but in different ways," predicts University of Virginia veteran campaign-finance watcher Larry Sabato. Companies, trade groups and unions would fund more grassroots organizing, phone banks, voter-registration drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach. Yale law professor Ian Ayres and Stanford economist Jeremy Bulow proposed last year in an article in the Stanford Law Review that donors should be allowed to give...
...With reporting by William Dowell and Julie Rawe/New York, Greg Fulton/Atlanta, Michael Krantz/Auburn, Janice Maloney/San Francisco, Elaine Marshall/Lake Tahoe, Timothy Roche/Chicago and Richard Woodbury/Jackson Hole...
...fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along--a "sub-sub-subspecies" of quasar, a bright object energized by a black hole in its center 8 billion light-years away. That became clear when astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii eyed Djorgovski's puzzle with infrared detectors. "A lot of noise over relatively little," he admitted--though he did see some good to the hoopla: it shows what a "fun science...