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For a number of years, 18, I have worked a Saturday night through Sunday morning job in addition to a regular job.  We put together various out-of-town newspapers and load them on trucks.  Last night, the fellow who delivers the Dayton paper was worried.  He said he was concerned, and so wasn't the paper owners, that the attack on Iraq might happen today. 

  Why was he worried?   Well, he explained, the "bracket day," when what teams will play in the NCAA tournament is drawn up, is tomorrow.  That is the best-selling paper day of the year.  The day the war starts, they anticipate allot of papers will be sold then too, but not as many as bracket day.  If both events are covered on the same day, then only one day will be a big paper day instead of two, so it would be better to bomb Iraq on a different day than bracket day for the paper business!

  He did not express an opinion as to whether there should be a war.