Qwest Sweetens MCI Bid

Qwest has raised its offer for MCI, adding more cash and protections against a decline in Qwest stock. The offer is now 20% higher than the Verizon deal that MCI has agreed to accept. I'm sticking with my prediction that Qwest will lose this one.

Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

The Rockies lost one of its true iconoclasts and most talented writers last night when Hunter S. Thompson died of a self-inflicited gunshot wound. Thompson had become something of a self-parody over the last decade, as his personal demons took tighter hold and his once-prodigious output declined. It may be that his infatuation with drugs, booze and the outlaw life (“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone,� he once wrote, “but they've always worked for me.�) prevented him, in the end, from attaining the true literary greatness that had always been his goal.

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