Level 3 Open Letter.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The following open letter to shareholders was released today by James Q. Crowe, CEO of Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT): Dear Fellow Shareholder - During the past two years, I implemented a program of limited daily...

Level 3 Communications Open Letter to Stockholders.
BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The following open letter to stockholders was released today by James Q. Crowe, CEO of Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT): Dear fellow stockholders: As you know from my past communications, during the last few years I...

LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS OPEN LETTER TO STOCKHOLDERS.
PR Newswire, London, June 18. This press release is transmitted on behalf of Level 3 Communications. Broomfield, Colorado - The following open letter to stockholders was released today by James Q. Crowe, CEO of Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: LVLT): Dear fellow stockholders:...

The paths ahead: analyst dissects forces behind an emerging economic recovery: technology isn't only changing the vending industry; it has made countries and continents more dependent on each other's labor markets. A seasoned Wall Street observer predicts mild job creation in the short term.
Good News! The Commerce Department released another upward revision of second quarter growth for the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, a key measure of our nation's economic performance as a Labor Day gift. With this revision, the economy grew 3.1 percent, reflecting the highest gain since the third quarter last...

Spaseeba, Tricky Dick! Research and the Cold War.
I never met Richard Nixon. Never saw him, except on television. The first time I can remember was during the famous Checkers speech. Even as a fourteen-year-old I found him to be self-righteous and smarmy, much as he was during his presidential resignation speech some twenty years later. Okay....

You are what you owe. (Trends).
Want some free financial consultation? It wont take more than a few seconds, I promise. I won't need to review your bank statements, nor even glance at a balance sheet of your assets and liabilities. Yet for at least 90 percent of you, my remedy will be the single...

Australia at a turning point.
This is the text of an address given to the ALIA Biennial Conference Powering our future, Sydney NSW 20-22 May 2002 IT IS THE GREATEST OF ALL CLICHES TO SAY THAT AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY IS CHANGING. It is a bit hard to talk about contemporary Australia without mentioning...

God's journalist.
Chesterton Garry Wills Doubleday, $14, 330 pp. Why should Gilbert Keith Chesterton still matter? Born in Victorian England in 1874 and dead in 1936, before the outbreak of World War II, he ought to seem as quaint as the romantic cloak, hat, and stick that adorned his...

Charging ahead: America's biggest new export--credit cards--could bring down the world economy.
FOR MOST OF THE LAST TWO GENERATIONS, the global economic system operated under a paradoxical division of labor. Americans consumed, while Asians--and much of the rest of the world--saved. The vast American consumer market helped drive the whole world economy. But since Americans were spending at such a prodigious...

Ripples in the Post-War economy. (The bottom line: taking the market's pulse, by the numbers ...).
The war is over, the summer's here and it's time to spend again. Right? Well, according to the latest findings from industry research firm The NPD Group, the summer selling season might finally be heating up after months of tensions over the war in Iraq, continuing threats of terrorism,...