By a Knight Ridder poll in 1996, the public again preferred a balanced budget to a tax cut, 59% to 34%.
In addition, Mr. Yarnold said that The Mercury News, a Knight Ridder daily that is highly regarded for its technology reporting, would bolster its arts and entertainment coverage as another way of appealing to San Francisco readers.
"This administration, in times of crisis, has really put out its own image from its own employees," said Chuck Kennedy, a Knight Ridder photographer who has covered the White House since Ronald Reagan's last term.
According to a Knight Ridder report at the time, "Patrick Kennedy said the most persuasive arguments for attacking Iraq came from members of the Clinton White House," including former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who is often described as the foreign policy expert closest to Hillary.
"We want to add life to the collection," said Mr. Perrell, adding that the exhibition is part of a move to make the Ridder a children's museum, which will happen officially in January with a Babar exhibition.
Mr. Ridder, a former hockey player, a talented golfer and a fierce competitor, says he believes in both.
In March, Mr. Ridder, a scion of a nationally prominent newspaper family, quit as publisher of The Pioneer Press, which the Ridders had run for 80 years, to take the same job at The Star Tribune.
With the string orchestra (and limited percussion) arranged in two symmetrical halves, and instruments in either natural temperament or a sixth-tone lower, the oscillating timbres frequently sound more like a synthesiser than a string orchestra.De Ridder's clear and admirably ambidextrous conducting helped keep the shapes clear and vivid.
The turmoil-ridden Philadelphia Inquirer, an erstwhile Knight Ridder mainstay that has a new ownership team and a new editor, will become a widely watched test case.
(Curiously, Japan, with hardly any Jarlsberg imports, is Tine's No. 2 export market. Japanese food processors favor Norvegia, a Gouda-like cheese. And the public likes Ridder, a sharp, strong cheese).
