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...most confidence during these dark days is its ground organization. While Democrats were attacking, the Bush team says it was quietly laying track. Much of the $41 million the campaign has spent so far out of the $140 million raised has been on this quiet infrastructure. Indeed, campaign manager Ken Mehlman, the Harvard-educated son of a CPA, has worked so diligently to build a field organization that some call him the "accountant" for his excessive attention to detail...
...save percentage—are respectable, to be sure. But they rank him in the middle of the pack of ECAC netminders, and those numbers are not on par, relative to his league rivals, with the ones he presented last season when he finished a close second to Ken Dryden Award winner David LeNeveu of Cornell in goals-against average and save percentage...
...surprisingly strong second-place finish in Wisconsin, is turning toward which candidate would do more to toughen trade agreements. It's a debate Bush campaign officials confidently predict will backfire on the Democrats. "We have a new economy, and they have yesterday's wrong ideas," said Bush campaign manager Ken Melhman. Maybe so, but if Bush can't convince voters he's got some ideas too, one job that might disappear come November is his. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson and Michael Duffy/Washington
...actors lend their distinctive comedic talents to play their characters for laughs—Stiller as the extremely anal-retentive Detective David Starsky and Wilson as the overly laid-back Detective Ken “Hutch” Hutchinson. Together the pair is a special brand of comedy—Stiller and Wilson as much as Starsky and Hutch, both starkly contrasting and strongly complimentary in their attitudes on work and life. But the movie is no spoof. In an interview with the stars in a college conference call organized by Warner Bros., it became clear that these two take...
...KEN HANNA Candy Cruncher Change and challenge are getting familiar to Hanna, 50. He engineered the late-1990s breakup of the British food conglomerate Dalgety after earlier stints in finance at Avis Europe and Guinness. Now Hanna is leaving a London private-equity firm to become CFO of Cadbury Schweppes in April. He will spearhead the confection-and-beverage company's four-year plan to cut costs by closing some factories and shrinking its work force 10%. Also on the agenda: integrating Adams, which Cadbury bought from Pfizer for $4.2 billion, gaining brands such as Trident, Halls and Dentyne...