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...with them. Sure, Wall Street could always use some extra stimulus, and stocks rallied on Bush's we-have-a-deal and sold off on Daschle's not-yet-you-don't. But between Tuesday's good news about the housing market and Wednesday's continued comeback of the index of Leading Economic Indicators, the backdrop of this week's climactic wrangle is less and less one of urgency. (Although Friday morning's University of Michigan consumer sentiment report for the first half of December could spin things the other...
...Rappers rule the charts, with four placing in the Top 10: No. 10 Lil' Bow Wow, No. 6 Nelly, No. 3 Tupac Shakur and No. 2 Eminem. The Web's most wanted? Osama bin Laden. For more analysis on Web-search trends, check out the Yahoo! Buzz Index, which takes a daily snapshot of what's hot in various categories, and the Google Zeitgeist, which tracks entries head to head, such as PlayStation2 vs. Xbox...
...article entitled, “For Love of the Game,” unmasks the Academic Index (AI), a shockingly imprecise formula that the Ivy League uses to make sure recruits aren’t too stupid. The writer shows how a valedictorian with a 1350 SAT and a highest SAT II of 750 would have an AI of 225 (the AI is calculated by assigning a score of one through 80 to the highest SAT I score, the highest SAT II score and class rank). He mentions, casually, that the Ivy League threshold for athletes is 169, but doesn?...
...about a complicated compilation of one media poll, one coaches’ poll, eight computer polls, a strength of schedule index and a quality win adjustment that results in a team that lost its last game by 25 points playing for the title. Wait, we already do that...
...NASADAQ up 83 points to 2046, was impressive in that it wasn't tied to any earth-shattering piece of good news. Well, there was the National Association of Purchasing Management's report on the services sector - 80 percent of GDP - which showed a spike in the NAPM index to 51.3 in November from 40.6 in October. And a bunch of analysts said - surprise! - good things about some tech bellwethers...