"I'm sitting on a mountain of deal flow, " he says, pointing to a box full of rejected business plans from some of the 2, 800 entrepreneurs who haven't made it onto the program but still show promise.

FORBES: You bet your life

In West Allis, a blue-collar suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, clean-cut college students in pressed white shirts sat with Palm Pilots and a big box of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, monitoring the flow of voters into the polls.

ECONOMIST: George Bush wins

But the play continued to flow in the direction of the Hibs goal and Andy Jackson, who replaced Samuel, turned in the box and had his shot deflected out.

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