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There is, however, a creative solution to the problem of expensive coursepacks. Under copyright law, students may take a batch of copyrighted material and make a single copy, or a small number of copies, for personal...
...Unless their gut gets confused, in which case investors behave like they did Friday - single digits up, single digits down - as if they were waiting for someone else to pipe up and tell them what, exactly, the latest batch of numbers means for the economy, the recession and the recovery. This was one of the lower-wattage economic Fridays - no University of Michigan report, no monthly unemployment. Just business inventories, industrial production and capacity utilization, and of course the CPI inflation gauge, which no one seems to worry much about anymore...
These moves have been spurred by a batch of government reports showing fewer jobless claims, better retail sales and an uptick in consumer confidence. A feeling of progress in the war on terrorism is also helping. But a setback in that war or in any future economic readings could cause traders to rethink their budding optimism...
...then there's Microsoft's X-Box, Nintendo's Game Cube, Apple's iPod, and (according to the Wall Street Journal, anyway) disco-era throwback Shrinky Dinks, which sentimental boomers are apparently trying to pass on to their kids. And there's always this year's batch of "must-own" DVDs of didn't-need-to-see movies, the kind of stocking stuffer that tends to pile up in shoppers' hands (and on their credit-card bills). Maybe all retailers will need this Christmas is a few hot "magnet" items (sufficiently stocked) to get shoppers into the stores...
...question of the Voting Rights Act’s extent is a major one in this year’s batch of redistricting, according to Gerken...