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...Intel, see, is the bluest of the blue-chip tech stocks, considered the sector's best indicator of where the overall high-tech winds are blowing. It's a member of the Dow, NASDAQ and the S&P, which is the practical reason why Wall Street's trio of indexes all tanked on the news. But the spiritual malaise is just as contagious; Microsoft, Dell and Cisco all took overnight hits as well. Intel's announcement also comes early in a third-quarter earnings season that investors are nervous enough about already. Bad earnings news revives fears that Greenspan...
...hold. And they know that a brief run of bad sessions in September - or the one-time underperformance of a stock up 49 percent for the year when the news hit - do not an incumbent-ousting recession make. A few sprightly earnings numbers from the tech sector in October, and the current gloom could be a distant memory...
...this show will strike an opera-goer as familiar. Presented recitative-style, with alternating spoken dialogue and songs that reveal characters' feelings and motivations, there are secrets revealed, kidnappings, bumbling henchmen, crude comedy and low-tech special effects like flash pots and strobes. Characters have solos, duets and ensemble arrangements, accompanied by interpretive dancers. There is even a pas de deux...
...edition of the Bowl Championship Series rankings--the system that has determined the participants in college football's national championship game for the past two years with minimal controversy. The triumph of the BCS in producing a Tennessee-Florida St. national championship in 1998 and a Florida St.-Virginia Tech national championship in 1999 have made the BCS a superficial success...
...strength of schedule factor that forced No. 2 Virginia Tech to sweat through the end of the year in 1999, as it enabled No. 3 Nebraska to get within striking distance. Although the Hokies schedule was significantly weaker than the Cornhuskers, most polls and computer rankings still placed Virginia Tech far ahead of the Nebraska due to the dominance that the Hokies demonstrated on the field every week. But the overemphasis on strength of schedule in the BCS allowed the Cornhuskers to get closer to the No. 2 spot than they ever should have been...