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...service sector is counterbalancing the anemic manufacturing segment. Professional, business and technical services keep adding jobs, as companies outsource work like network maintenance and advertising. Bush's tax cuts, as well as the mortgage-refinancing rush, put cash in consumers' pockets, leaving them with more to spend at restaurants and bars--where employment bloomed by 113,000 over the year...
...next to Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi, not next to the X-Men. Maus is a Holocaust memoir first and a comicbook second." Micha Hershman, the graphic novel buyer for the Borders bookstore chain has no such doubts. "The graphic novel is a format," he says. "We would not segment the category by splitting up the graphic novel section." According to Hershman, Borders' research shows the "demographics for 'Maus' overlap with the ones for Spider-Man," so that it is theoretically easier to lure the reader of one to the other than it is to lure a reader of Elie...
...where investors are back to fawning over stock-option profligates like Cisco (up 54% year to date) and are even giving a second look to infamous Frank Quattrone IPOs like Corvis (up 91%) and Gemplus (up 88%). Overall, tech is once again the S&P 500's best-performing segment, rising 59% this year, even though that segment has experienced a 5% decline in the previous 12 months of earnings. This remains an industry dogged by sluggish corporate spending and huge amounts of excess capacity. So it's hard to comprehend why the stock market is valuing a dollar...
Dartboard has already contacted Fox News about a potential segment entitled “When Voting Goes Wrong” based on the true-life story of this Tuesday’s municipal “elections.” Thanks to a proportional representation voting system that allows voters to rank their choices, Matt DeBergalis will not receive a seat on the nine-member City Council despite getting the seventh highest amount of number one votes...
...most heated moment in an otherwise light debate came just minutes into the first segment when Dean struggled to defend his comments to the Des Moines Register Saturday that the he sought to appeal to southern voters with Confederate flags on their pick-up trucks...