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Updated items in italics.Caliber Goes for TreebaCaliber Learning Network Inc., the Baltimore-based provider of end-to-end corporate eLearning solutions, today announced a three-year partnership with Treeba, Inc., a company based in Summit, N.J., that allows corporations and search firms to do ...

<TAB>If too many cooks spoil the broth, it goes without saying the absence of a cook means no one gets fed. Warren Isabelle uses such an analogy to explain how he shops for out-of-favor, small company stocks.<@SM><@SM><TAB>

<b><u>BANKING</u></b><@SM><@SM><TAB><b>Provident Bank</b> officials announced that <i>Diane Hooker</i> has been promoted to assistant vice president in the human resources division. Hooker, who has been a Provident employee since 1997, will focus on the training and development departments. She also is chairwoman of the Maryland Association of Urban Bankers Education Committee, of which she has been a member since 1996.

<TAB>Tucked away on a residential street in Southwest Baltimore sits a manufacturing plant that looks like any other. There is a time clock where workers punch in and out, a bulletin board announcing upcoming meetings and job openings, and a stack of company newsletters.

<b><u>Phillips Goes to TheStreet</u></b><@SM><@SM><TAB>Potomac-based Phillips Publishing, one of the nation

<TAB>Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Frederick, and challenger Donald DeArmon both describe the race for Maryland's 6th congressional district as a classic battle between Washington insider and independent outsider

<TAB>Eunice Kennedy Shriver remained in critical condition but is showing signs of improvement, her son said yesterday.<@SM><@SM><TAB>Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy, entered Johns Hopkins Hospital more than a week ago for treatment of a postoperative infection.

<TAB>The deal Napster cut with the music division of German media giant Bertelsmann AG could well save it from the dot-com junk heap.<@SM><@SM><TAB>But the membership-based digital distribution scheme vaguely described by the new partners doesn

Updated items in italicsNew Ciena Director Has Goldman TouchA managing director of Goldman Sachs Group has joined the board of optical networking company Ciena Corp., the Linthicum-based firm said today. Lawton W. Fitt, 47, said “Ciena is helping to define ...

<TAB>If you catch a case of cabin fever three months from now, don