Investor's Business Daily articles from February 2001

Investor's Business Daily archives from February 2001

The Economy.(A)
February 1, 2001... Job market rebounded, still tight It tightened modestly in January after a fourth-quarter lull, said staffing firm executives polled by Market News. Recruiters say the headline layoffs - 26,000 at DaimlerChrysler, 16,000 at Lucent, 4,000 at...

TRENDSTEXT2.(A)
February 1, 2001... Abiomed's artificial heart, which is fully implantable and battery powered, wonFDA approval for experimental use in five patients, all of them too sick for heart transplants. An arsenic-eating fern could help clean up industrial, mining and...

TRENDSTEXT.(A)
February 1, 2001... Byline: By Qualcomm debuts telecom platform for wireless software development The idea is for developers to create standard software for many mobile phone brands. The binary run time environment for wireless uses Qualcomm's code...

WASHINGTON.(A)
February 1, 2001... First Bush Cabinet meeting ends with tax cuts, 'lean budgets' call President Bush called for "lean budgets" and good stewardship of Americans' money as Democrats and Republicans coalesced around the idea of a tax cut but differed on...

WW.(A)
February 1, 2001... Pirate attacks reach a new high, with Indonesia's waters the worst Seventy-two people were killed in 469 attacks last year, a maritime monitoring group reported. The number of pirate attacks in 2000 rose 57% from 1999, with about...

10SECRETS.(A)
February 1, 2001... Focusing on only priority tasks is one of the biggest mistakes busy people make. Priorities are handled - and replaced with new ones. Secondary chores, often as vital as the top-rung tasks in the long run, remain ignored. The solution is...

Industrialist Charles M. Schwab Dedication To Hard Work Helped Him Lead The Steel-Producing Pack.(A)(Leaders & Success)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily Charles Schwab didn't believe in saying "I don't know." If he didn't know something, he'd study it until he did. Even in grade school, this stubborn will to learn was evident. In math...

Meritage Corp.'s Steve Hilton His Focus Helped Build His Real Estate Empire.(A)(Leaders & Success)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Christopher L. Tyner Investor's Business Daily In the latter half of the 1980s, Steve J. Hilton decided to adopt the same approach to running his business that hockey great Wayne Gretzky used on the ice. "Gretzky had a...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
February 1, 2001... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON DEALING WITH PEOPLE Rule 1: The customer is always right. Rule 2: If the customer is ever wrong, re-read Rule 1. Stew Leonard, merchant In every instance, we've found that the...

Internet & Technology.(A)
February 1, 2001... Byline: J. Bonasia Investor's Business Daily What a difference a year makes. In early 2000, the tech industry went gaga over application service providers, or ASPs. The ASP business model seemed to make great sense. Using the...

Earnings Deceleration Raises Warning Flag.(A)(Investor's Corner)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily An astute investor will weigh fundamental and technical strength equally while pondering stock buys. When mulling a sale, consulting a stock's chart usually tells you more than profit or...

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... DoveBid Befriending Vultures As Net Firms Go Belly Up Industrial auctioneer DoveBid Inc. is reaping the benefits of belt-tightening in a scary economy. Jeff Crowe, president of the privately held Foster City, Calif., company, says...

NEW ECONOMY Exchanges Turn Network Bandwidth Into Commodity.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Antonio A. Prado Investor's Business Daily Could bandwidth and data storage be traded like gold, oil or pork bellies? "Whynot?" say economists and traders. The old economy's raw materials - like crude oil, natural gas,...

TECH EARNINGS AOL Time Warner Says It's Expecting A Long Honeymoon.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Doug Tsuruoka Investor's Business Daily When Chief Executive Gerald Levin talks about AOL Time Warner Inc., it sounds like he's talking about the soul of a new machine. "It's not a media company anymore. It's not an...

LEAPBUZZ-IT.(A)
February 1, 2001... Buzzword CDMA: Code division multiple access. A digital cellular technology that converts voice, or analog, transmissions into the digital computer language of ones and zeros, boosting the number of voice channels carried on a cellular...

WEB CONTENT Men Give The Cold Shoulder To 'Their' Sites.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Gary Stern Investor's Business Daily Technology might remain primarily a man's world, but don't tell that to some companies that have tried - and failed - to develop online businesses that cater to men. Probably the...

WIRELESS SERVICES Leap's Numbers Jump Thanks To Its Simple-Pricing Pitch.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Peter Benesh Investor's Business Daily It seems counterintuitive to think of simplicity as a business model for a high-tech industry like wireless communication. Most of the buzz is about providing fancy, expensive features...

Cisco Debuts Networking Gear It Hopes Will Swat Small Rivals.(A)(CISCO)
February 1, 2001... SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. on Wednesday announced a slew of new networking products aimed at telecommunications service providers, as the Internet infrastructure equipment provider seeks to fend off small but fast-growing...

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS Sega Confirms Demise Of Dreamcast Unit.(A)(SEGA)
February 1, 2001... TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Sega Corp. pulled the plug on its Dreamcast game machine on Wednesday, announcing it would suffer a record loss by ending production of the loss-making console in March in a dramatic refocusing on video game software....

Locks, Alarms, Biometrics Can Thwart Laptop Thieves New products - elaborate and simple - hit the market as portable devices carry more crucial data.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Paul Korzeniowski Investor's Business Daily Irwin Jacobs is a poster child of sorts for laptop security. The chief executive of San Diego-based Qualcomm Corp. made news last year when someone swiped his laptop computer at a...

Fed Cuts Rates As 1.4% Rise In GDP All But Ends Hope For 'Soft Landing'.(A)(Company In The News)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Donald H. Gold Investor's Business Daily The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates another half-point Wednesday following a GDP report that blows apart hopes for a soft landing. And more rate cuts may be coming, as the...

BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS Agile Will Fill Big Ariba Need: Products To Aid Collaboration.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: J. Bonasia By J. Bonasia Investor's Business Daily Ariba Inc.'s acquisition of Agile Software Corp. fills a product gap for one ofthe largest sellers of software to run a company's e-commerce operations. Ariba agreed...

It's A Slowdown. It's Expected. Now, It's Time To Get To Work.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Antonio A. Prado Investor's Business Daily Once the software evangelist at Apple Computer Inc., Guy Kawasaki now extols the virtues of scrappy start-ups as CEO of venture capital firm Garage.com. Investors have taken a...

RARE HOSPITALITY INTERNATIONAL INC. /Atlanta, Georgia Demand Fattens Sales For Steakhouse Operator.(A)(The New America)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Suz Redfearn Investor's Business Daily The U.S. has seen a robust uptick in beef consumption in the last three years, and that makes Philip Hickey a happy, happy man. He's chairman and chief executive of Rare Hospitality...

IXIA /Calabasas, California Despite Market Slump, Tech Firm Powers On.(A)(The New America)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Janet Purdy Levaux Investor's Business Daily The telecommunications boom that echoed in the first half of 2000 seems a distant memory. Many in the sector are strapped with lower projected sales and earnings growth over the next...

TOM BROWN INC. /Denver, Colorado Change At The Top Doesn't Slow Gas Firm.(A)(The New America)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Alan R. Elliott Investor's Business Daily Oil and natural gas provider Tom Brown Inc. can thank the Bush administration for shaking up its management team and sending it in search of a new chairman and chief executive. ...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
February 1, 2001... The Real Most Active The market got shaken up, but closed positive after the Federal Reserve loweredthe discount rate by a half point Wednesday. The Dow industrials fell as low as 10,834.50 intraday before closing up 6.16 points, or...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
February 1, 2001... BJ's Wholesale Club broke out of a base it began in April on strong volume Wednesday. The stock notched a new high, closing within 5% of its pivot point of 40.88. The Natick, Mass.-based membership warehouse club operates more than 100...

Rate Cut, GDP Plunge Combine To Accelerate Rally In Treasuries.(A)(Credit Markets)
February 1, 2001... By Reuters U.S. Treasuries sprang higher for the second straight day on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve, seeking to stop the economic rot, chopped key interest rates by a half-point for the second time this month. The move, in...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
February 1, 2001... THE BIG PICTURE The Fed met expectations Wednesday with a half-point rate cut. But stocks sold off, just as they often do when companies only match estimates. Big tech stocks took the news the hardest. The Nasdaq rallied briefly after...

View Point.(A)
February 1, 2001... By Harry V. Jaffa No recent political subject has generated more heat and less light than that ofcampaign finance. John McCain seems determined to make it the hallmark of his political career, doggedly pursuing in the Senate what he failed...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 1-5)
February 1, 2001... Fed Cuts Rates 1/2-Point In Effort To Boost Economy 1That brought the fed funds target rate to 5.50%. The discount rate also was cut by a half-point, to 5%. It was the second rate cut this month. The Fed surprised markets Jan. 3 by...

National Issue.(A)
February 1, 2001... By Paul Craig Roberts Kevin Phillips is again having a hissy fit. He has a lot of them, but nothing brings them on like a Republican tax cut. Kevin lost it 20 years ago when President Reagan set about making good on his campaign...

Editorial.(A)
February 1, 2001... We have to admit we had some misgivings about President Bush's pick of former Alcoa CEO Paul O'Neill to head the Treasury. But, if recent comments are any indication, the former aluminum executive might be right for the job. Why were we...

WHY IRISH EYES ARE SMILING.(A)(Editorial)
February 1, 2001... It's hard not to chuckle at European Union nabobs lecturing Ireland on its economic success. But their aim to mold the Irish economy in the image of theirown economic wrecks is no laughing matter. Instead of flaying Ireland for its bustling...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
February 1, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / Flextronics International was a top new buy of Putnam VistaFund in the latest reporting period. The stock is trading in a base that beganSept. 6 when it reached 44.91. Earnings rose 53% in each of the past two quarters....

After Heady Year, Reality Bites Calif. Munis Uncertainty over state's financing role, possible downgrade hurt market.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Claire Mencke Investor's Business Daily California muni bonds and related mutual funds have been high on performance lists the past two months. The state's booming, diverse economy boosted incomes and savings, sparking...

Monogram Fund Charts A Small-Cap Course Manager is schooled in CAN SLIM philosophy, but keeps eye on value.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
February 1, 2001... Byline: Ken Hoover Investor's Business Daily First Source Monogram Special Equity Fund invests in small companies that are growing quickly. Many of its picks are undiscovered or largely ignored by stockanalysts. Manager Brian...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
February 1, 2001... The Real Most Active After hovering above water for most of the morning, the Nasdaq headed south Wednesday after the Fed failed to pack anything extra into its latest interest rate gift. The composite index slid 65.62 points, or 2.3%,...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
February 1, 2001... After a 68% move in just 1 1/2 months, Lincare Holdings lapsed into its currentconsolidation on Dec. 29. At 20% off its old high, the stock still has a lot of work to do but may be worth keeping an eye on. Despite its recent downturn,...

Gasoline Sinks On Demand Report; Cocoa Suffers Profit-Taking Rout.(B)(FUTURES)
February 1, 2001... By Reuters Crude oil prices tumbled on Wednesday despite a sharp fall in stockpiles and aninterest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, while cocoa futures slipped on selling by large commodity funds. F U T U R E S In other commodity...

IBD's Top 10.(A)(IBD's Top 10 6-10)
February 1, 2001... Key Business Barometer Plummets To 18-Year Low 6The Chicago purchasing managers index, which measures economic activity aroundChicago, fell to 40.2 in January from December's 45.2. It was the fourth straight month that business...

Business News.(A)(After The Close)
February 1, 2001... ALCOA expects to cut costs by $1 billion by the end of 2003. The aluminum giantwill boost productivity and speed up acquisitions. CELESTICA earned 52 cents a share in the fourth quarter, up 136% from a year ago and beating views by 8 cents....

Business News.(A)(Business News)
February 1, 2001... Cisco releases new optical goods in bid to fend off upstart rivals The new 12400 series Internet routers are the first from Cisco Systems to run at 10 gigabits per second, four times faster than its current routers. Rivals such as...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
February 1, 2001... Coke's net rises 23%, sales dip The world's leading soft drink firm earned 38 cents a share in its fourth quarter vs. 31 cents a year ago. Coca-Cola met estimates, thanks to strong growth in the Asia-Pacific region. But overall sales fell...

Business News.(A)(Business News)
February 1, 2001... Alliant buys Thiokol for $685 mil to expand rocket-engine business Alliant Techsystems sees the cash purchase of Alcoa's rocket propulsion systemsunit boosting earnings by 5-10 cents in fiscal 2002, which begins April 1. Alliant makes...

Fidelity Big Buyer Of Intel, Lilly In Third Qtr Group's fund managers pare positions in Juniper and Microsoft.(A)(Mutual Weekly Special)
February 2, 2001... Byline: Leo Fasciocco Investor's Business Daily The Fidelity fund family did its biggest buying in the chip sector during the third quarter, leading with Intel. The fund group added to its stake in Texas Instruments, another...

Key Fund Holdings.(B)
February 2, 2001... Key Fund Holdings / Medical wholesaler AmeriSource was a top 10 holding at AIM Global Health Care Fund as of the latest reporting period. The stock hit a highof 53.69 on Dec. 29, declined to 42.06 on Jan. 19 and has rebounded to 47.50, 11% off...

What You Should Do First This Tax Season Before calling your CPA, here are tips for organizing your paperwork.(B)(Making Money In Mutuals)
February 2, 2001... Byline: Stuart Weiss Investor's Business Daily This week marks the unofficial start of tax season. W-2s from your job and 1099s from your brokerage, mutual funds and any consulting clients had to be mailed by Wednesday. If they...

The New America Index.(B)(The New America)
February 2, 2001... American Eagles Outfitters Inc.1/12/01 American Home Products Corp.12/07/00 Ameripath Inc.12/15/00 AmeriSource Health Corp.12/11/00 Aremissoft Corp.12/14/00 Atlas Air Inc.1/06/01 AXT Inc.1/29/01 Best Buy...

The Real Most Active - NASDAQ.(B)(The Real Most Active - NASDAQ)
February 2, 2001... The Real Most Active The Nasdaq spent another day seesawing between positive and negative territory Thursday. The composite index finished the day on the plus side, with a gain of 10.06 points, or 0.36%, to 2782.79. Volume shrank 25%...

Stocks In The News - NASDAQ.(B)
February 2, 2001... Aeroflex has been trading between 20 and 35 for 15 weeks. The stock is 15% off its Oct. 20 high of 38.19. The stock's Relative Price Strength Rating has been a 99 for at least nine weeks. This means the stock has outpaced 99% of all stocks...

Oil Pulls Energy Sector Higher; Grains, Beans Up On Export News.(B)(FUTURES)
February 2, 2001... By Reuters Oil prices jumped Thursday as speculators pushed the market higher against a background of tight U.S. supplies and production cuts by producers. In other commodity markets, gold prices rose and palladium was steady in thin...

The Economy.(A)
February 5, 2001... Consumer confidence to hold up, Dallas Fed chief McTeer predicts Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert McTeer said confidence will hold up "aslong as we keep doing what we have been doing." The Fed slashed key interest rates by a...

TRENDSTEXT2.(A)
February 5, 2001... Pregnant women who took painkillers called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, including ibuprofen, had more miscarriages than those who didn't, Odder Hospital in Denmark found. Inhaled insulin may soon be an option for diabetics,...

TRENDSTEXT.(A)
February 5, 2001... Juno plans 'virtual supercomputer' by tapping users' processing power Juno Online Services wants subscribers to leave their computers on 24 hours a day so it can sell the excess processing power and hard drive space to...

WASHINGTON.(A)
February 5, 2001... Networks will testify in Congress on election coverage and miscues Network TV executives were asked to appear before Congress on Feb. 14 to explain mistakes and respond to charges of bias in covering the 2000 presidential election....

WW.(A)
February 5, 2001... U.S. approves $4 million to help foes undermine Saddam Hussein Acting on an application filed in early January by the Clinton administration, the Treasury Department gave the nod to the Iraqi National Congress opposition group to...

10SECRETS.(A)
February 5, 2001... Born the son of slaves on a Missouri plantation, George Washington Carver grew up fighting racism. Through determination and an unwavering focus, he went on to revolutionize agriculture and become one of the nation's leading scientists. ...

Artist Norman Rockwell He Painted His Way Into People's Hearts By Giving 100% Effort.(A)(Leaders & Success)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Nancy Gondo Investor's Business Daily Young Norman Rockwell had a knack for drawing and a big dream: He wanted to be a famous artist. How best to do that? Rockwell (1894-1978) decided to draw people in pleasant orhumorous...

Nature Conservancy's Dick Goodwin His Can-Do Spirit Fostered Land Conservation.(A)(Leaders & Success)
February 5, 2001... Byline: David Saito-Chung Investor's Business Daily As a botany professor, Dick Goodwin did a lot of lecturing. But when it came topreserving areas rich with nature, he let his actions speak for him. In the early 1940s, a group...

Wisdom To Live By.(A)(Leaders & Success)
February 5, 2001... {TEXT} Wisdom To Live By . {TEXT} ON BRAVERY Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. Gen. Omar Bradley This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the...

Internet & Technology.(A)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Donna Howell Investor's Business Daily Will the dot-com world ever wear the union label? Last fall, months before January's layoffs of 1,300 people at Amazon.com, a group of employees there began efforts toward unionization...

Explosive Sales Growth Fuels Leading Stocks.(A)(Investor's Corner)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Jonah Keri Investor's Business Daily At first glance, chip chemical maker Cabot Microelectronics and women's clotheschain Christopher & Banks seem to have little in common. But look a little closer and you'll see similarities....

Tech Bits.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 5, 2001... When California's Lights Go Out, Energy-Tech Firms Get Spotlight Although the landscape looks bleak for many tech firms these days, California'senergy crunch opens doors for others. Companies that tout technologies to improve...

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY With Positive Cash Flow, Will WinStar Start To Shine?(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily Bill Rouhana has no doubts that his phone start-up will make it. He's even taken to the skies to extol the virtues of WinStar Communications Inc., which sells communication...

DOT-COM STRIFE Critical Path Tries To Regain Footing Amid Sales Scandal.(A)(Internet & TechnologyY)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Brian Deagon Investor's Business Daily Like other dot-coms in 1999, Critical Path Inc. was a big winner. Its stock soared 230% on its first day of trading. Critical Path also lined up several name-brand customers for its...

Web Truly A Religion - At Least Some Sites.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Julie Mitchell Investor's Business Daily People these days are turning to the Internet for everything from antiques to advice. So it's no surprise that they're also going online to find religion. For those who no longer...

1996 TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM ACT Telecom Act? More Like Lawyers' Full-Employment Law.(A)(Internet & Technology)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Reinhardt Krause Investor's Business Daily Five years after Congress passed telecom reform to give consumers more choices,most people still buy their local service from the same company they always have. If telecom reform...

BUZZWORD.(A)
February 5, 2001... Buzzwords Fiber optics: A technology that uses light, rather than electrical energy, to carry data. Fiber-optic cable is made up of thin filaments of glass. It can carry large amounts of data over long distances - as much as 30,000 times...

Corning Puzzled By Stock Market Reaction.(A)(TEKQA)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Mike Angell Investor's Business Daily You might think investors would rejoice at earnings and revenue gains topping 50%. Well, not if the company is talking about things slowing in the next quarter, especially if that company...

HIBBETT SPORTING GOODS INC. /Birmingham, Alabama Small Towns Charmed By Sporting Goods Firm.(A)(The New America)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Erik Spanberg Investor's Business Daily A staple in American shopping malls is the sneaker store, a place where teens and other fashion-conscious consumers can grab a pair of whatever athletic apparel happens to be trendy. ...

BED BATH & BEYOND INC. /Union, New Jersey Retailer Finds Success Not Beyond Its Reach.(A)(The New America)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Marilyn Alva Investor's Business Daily Luggage is peddled at the new superstore on Manhattan's swank Upper East Side. In the more artsy Chelsea district downtown, electric fans are sold year-round to cool customers' overheated...

DUPONT PHOTOMASKS INC. /Round Rock, Texas Tech Firm Grows Sales A Micron At A Time.(A)(The New America)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Christina Wise Investor's Business Daily If you're DuPont Photomasks Inc., making money means making machines capable ofblazing a line just 0.18 microns wide - about 1/400th the width of a human hair. And you have to bend...

Innovators Or Copycats? Wal-Mart,Schwab, Southwest Air Were Both.(A)(CO)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Marilyn Much Investor's Business Daily A few years after Sam Walton opened his first Wal Mart Discount City, Herb Kelleher began sketching a plan for an airline based on the same concepts: low prices and good service. ...

Glaxo Deals Blow To Professional Detailing.(A)(ECON2)
February 5, 2001... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Drug marketing company Professional Detailing Inc.'s shares dropped 43% on Friday as giant British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC ended a marketing contract. Professional's shares were slammed 44 1/2, or 44%, to 56 7/8....

More Jobs - And More Joblessness December's mixed report sheds little new light on the economy.(A)(ECON)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Donald H. Gold Investor's Business Daily Is the economy sliding into recession? Don't look to December's much-awaited jobs report for an answer. It showed signs of both growing weakness and gathering strength, leaving investors...

The Real Most Active - NYSE.(A)(The Real Most Active - NYSE)
February 5, 2001... The Real Most Active After a strong week, blue chips slipped Friday. The Dow began the day rallying higher, but couldn't hold on as it continued to slide, closing down 119.53 points, or 1.1%, to 10,864.10. For the week, the index...

Stocks In The News - NYSE.(A)
February 5, 2001... BlackRock made its debut Oct. 1, 1999, at $14. The stock then gained 284% from late October to early December. After hitting a high of 48 on Dec. 8, it pulledback. It's currently working on the right side of an eight-week base, sitting 11% off...

SHOE2-SNAP.(A)
February 5, 2001... {TEXT} Footwear companies are back at the starting line after a poor couple of years. Athletic shoe brands that suffered as expensive endorsement contracts met lackluster sales have been revamped. And the industry is getting back in touch...

The Big Picture.(A)(The Big Picture)
February 5, 2001... THE BIG PICTURE Stocks declined moderately Friday morning following a mixed job report. But theselling gained momentum in the afternoon, although it wasn't powered by highertrading volume. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% in...

Will Congress' Spending Appetite Keep Growing With The Surplus?(A)(National Issue)
February 5, 2001... Byline: Joseph Guinto Investor's Business Daily Forget the near-zero growth of the economy. Never mind the uptick in inflation or reports that suggest manufacturing is already in a recession. The Congressional Budget Office said...

ASHCROFT AND THE AUGEAN STABLES.(A)(Editorial)
February 5, 2001... Welcome, John Ashcroft, to the helm of the Justice Department. If you think theworst is over after the hatchet job that was your confirmation process, think again. Now you have to clean up the mess left behind by Janet Reno's reign. In...

GOV. LOWBEAM AND THE DIM BULBS.(A)(Editorial)
February 5, 2001... California Gov. Gray Davis served as chief of staff to former Gov. Jerry Brown from 1974 to 1981. The experience was quite formative: To this day, Davis pursues a quasi-socialist energy policy that borders on the surreal. Back then, Davis...