"You maximize the benefit of creating and owning content if you also own the distribution networks," Logsdon said.Time Warner, moreover, has used its cable distribution as leverage in negotiations with other large media giants such as News Corp., which owns the leading satellite TV provider and a collection of cable channels.Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen said the company would be reluctant to lop off Time Warner Cable because it had just reassigned some top executives to run it.*(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX)Profit pipelineCable is one of Time Warner's more profitable divisions, accounting for more than a fourth of its operating profit in the second quarter.Breakdown by second-quarter sales and operating profitSalesFilmed entertainment: 24%Networks: 22%Cable: 21%AOL: 19%Publishing: 14%--Operating incomeNetworks: 30%Cable 27%AOL 20%Publishing 16%Filmed entertainment: 7%Source: Bloomberg News. Crowds as large as 3,000 would show up to see such entertainers as Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. Breaux, a former Democratic senator from Louisiana who was a leader among party moderates until his retirement last year.In Washington, the current never flows only in one direction. She made the New York Times front page and is being plied with interview requests from CNN, Fox, "Good Morning America" and public radio.

"It's the only time I ever saw a fish catch a man."*Trivia time: How long have girls been eligible to play Little League baseball?*Another fish story: According to Strege, American League umpires used to fish from a window at a Seattle hotel that overlooked Puget Sound."One even came up with an ingenious method to ensure he never missed a bite -- even when he was at the hotel bar," Strege wrote in his book. Abramoff, who has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, bribery and related tax charges, is awaiting sentencing pending the ongoing investigation.Under his plea deal, Volz, 35, admitted to conspiring to corruptly influence a public official and to violating a law barring congressional aides from lobbying their former employers within a year of leaving public office. He did not allow a runner past second base.San Francisco 6, Atlanta 5 -- Randy Winn blooped a single to shallow right field to score the winning run after Lance Niekro led off the ninth with a homer to left at San Francisco.Chipper Jones sprained his right ankle in the eighth inning. That is down from its previous forecast of 5% to 6%.Apria's shares fell $5.46 to $26.10, the lowest since late 2003.Also, the company said growth in revenue in the third quarter slowed to less than 1% compared with last year It will release complete results Oct.

"We're not in yet, so you just have to focus on every game and what you have to do that day."That's how we've looked at it. -- said they took the group's campaign as a public acknowledgment of the value of their news-gathering operations.However, they also said they did not expect the petitions to save jobs, and argued that the papers would continue to deliver strong news content."I think it's terrific that people care enough about the paper to do whatever they can to make sure that it has the ability to keep doing great stuff," said Times Editor Dean Baquet."I think it means that -- at a time when people are putting papers down and questioning how relevant we are -- a bunch of people are saying, 'We think you are very relevant, and keep doing what you are doing,' " he said.Scott C. The silent sidekick to the criminal mastermind of the "Austin Powers" trilogy, Mini-Me's reticence makes it seem like he's always scheming, as he meditatively strokes his mini-Mr. "I started a little entertainment company with these two producers, and for a while I was out there pitching reality TV shows.