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...used to talk about the Goldilocks economy--not too hot and not too cold. Now it's like the Energizer-bunny economy. It just keeps going and going and going." --David Bowers, professor of banking and finance at Case Western Reserve University (Knight-Ridder Tribune Business Service, March...
...Today/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots shows that if the standard that Al Gore advocated had been used - if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as a vote - George W. Bush would have won Florida, all 67 counties, by 1,665 votes, more than triple his official 537-vote margin...
...skipping the Patty Kazmaier dinner, the Bulldog players passed up on a chance to honor the late Robert B. Ridder '41, a USA Hockey Hall of Famer who co-founded Minnesota Hockey and co-owned the Minnesota North Stars. Without Ridder's dedication, Minn.-Duluth women's hockey might never have been created...
...more complete view of the Florida vote, that will have to wait until two separate counts of the whole state are completed. The Herald and its parent, the Knight Ridder chain of newspapers, has counted all but two counties. (Officials in upstate Duval and Holmes counties have postponed the recount, fearing further disruption if the ballots were subpoenaed in lawsuits.) Meanwhile, a consortium of news organizations, including the Associated Press, the New York Times and CNN, has hired the National Opinion Research Center, a non-profit firm out of the University of Chicago, to examine nearly 200,000 ballots that...
...marketplace? Not necessarily, says TIME editor-at-large Daniel Okrent. "A lot of our concerns may be based on antiquated ideas of local ownership - even in small markets, there is very little in terms of truly localized ownership, and there hasn't been for years. Publishing giants like Knight-Ridder and Tribune already own the bulk of nation's papers." In other words, since we're already firmly ensconced in corporate culture, we probably won't notice much of a difference...