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...ghosts of campaigns past and get them to play together. But if he was tactically shrewd to offer to meet with Bush, drop all the lawsuits and recount ballots across the whole state, not just in heavily Democratic counties, he couldn't resist taking the truth out for a spin. "What is at stake here is more important than who wins the presidency," he said, and talked about that special something we all cherish and pledge allegiance to. "That's what I'm focused on. Not the contest, but our democracy...
...ALWAYS HOPE TO SEE SOMETHING NEW at the circus, something that draws from the great tradition of circus acts and puts a new spin on it. There is plenty of new circus to be seen in Kaleidoscope, with only one or two acts falling flat once the novelty wears...
...field but in the parking lot, at the tailgate. As a transplant from the Midwest, the international home of tailgating, I have attended more than my fair share of these Saturday afternoon rituals. And yet, Harvard--as Harvard is apt to do--puts its own lavish spin on such events. Though most of the parties had familiar offering of hot dogs and beer, not a few were serving up a more decadent fare. There was champagne, pate and cheeses far more exotic than anything you'd put on a hamburger. Certainly, the festivities were just a bit removed from...
...study, James Miles and J. Randall Woolridge, finance professors at Penn State, found that on average, management spends more to improve its business after it's been spun off than it did when it was part of a larger entity. They also found that spin-off companies have a better than average chance of being taken over. By their calculations, spin-offs outperform a peer group by 30 percentage points over three years, parent companies by 19 points...
...spin-offs soar. Look out for junky companies created to separate legal liability or off-load debt from the parent. And some carve-outs simply don't make good stand-alone companies, like Barnesandnoble.com and other dotcoms that are really just brand extensions designed to cash in on the Internet bubble. Such IPOs may get a lot of attention, but that's not where you find the big money...