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...room for the big deal that might seal a No. 1 content position for Bertelsmann. The private Bertelsmann's board has a deep-rooted aversion to debt. So Middelhoff redoubled his efforts to reorganize the company around digital content and in one stroke sold off its stake in a string of companies before the dotcom meltdown. That netted an estimated $15 billion in cash ($8 billion from AOL Europe alone) to shop with...
DIED. STEVE ALLEN, 78, late-night talk-show pioneer; of an apparent heart attack; in Encino, Calif. The first host of NBC's Tonight show, Allen went on to star in a string of influential talk and comedy shows. He was also an author, pianist, songwriter (This Could Be the Start of Something Big) and, in recent years, vocal crusader against sex and violence on TV. (See EULOGY, below...
...dealt a slew of tough-luck losses, including a string of five defeats to close out the season. After falling 2-1 in overtime on Saturday to Columbia, which had not won a league game previously, Harvard understandably believed that it had hit rock bottom...
...Hampshire call this thing early? Is Florida the be-all and end-all? Is California in play? Will it come down to Oregon, at 4 a.m. ET? How's the voting booth look out there, Reggie? And what's the deal with all those absentee ballots? The second-string cable anchors are all here, sniffing for signs and marking time until the big shots take over at 5 p.m. ET, when it'll be possible to start speculating with a straight face...
...managers and what that would mean if they were in the Oval Office. The story also includes charts of the people around both candidates who really influence their thinking. And deputy Washington bureau chief Matt Cooper, who has helped Duffy direct our political reporting, provides the latest in his string of dispatches from the trail. This one is on Ralph Nader...