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...general, though, breakups are a good thing for investors. The best tend to be tax-free spin-offs of 100% of a subsidiary. A company spins off a division for lots of reasons--maybe because it needs to get out of a business to avoid conflicts with other pursuits. Or maybe because it screws up and those synergies never surface. Hello...
...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...
...herewith offer suggestions for children's literature, cookbooks and that hardy anachronism, the gift book. Today, when a coffee table is more likely to be the counter at Starbucks than a piece of home furniture, coffee-table books may seem of use only to their authors and reviewers (we get to keep 'em or give 'em away). But these handsome, weighty volumes provide testimony that far from being obsolete, they can still be a treat...
...pair of perpendicular lines: making a cross is as simple as rubbing two sticks together. Yet how much potent symbolism can be read into this image; how much religious and social weight it has borne. Place it on a nun's habit or a Klansman's hood and get drastically different readings. Tweak its four ends and a swastika emerges. There are familiar evocations of the crucified Jesus in this piquant Christmas tome (actually more a Good Friday book), but Klein lets her imagination roam wild through pictures of trapeze artists, surfboarders, plastic cutlery and body sculpture. The figure...
VOTER NEWS SERVICE Four years' prep time for one day of exit polling, and they can't get Florida right...