Word: accountants
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...bloodletting tonight." Featured speakers at the inquisition will be Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, and GOP Conference Chairman John Boehner, all probably with a different version of events. "Armey, besides his public denials, has worked the conference really hard, person by person, proclaiming his innocence. The problem is that his account has been directly contradicted by the rebels he met with." Tom Delay has refused to talk to the press and indeed, hasn't said much of anything. "That may have been smarter," says Carney. "But he's also the hardest hit--his fingerprints are all over this." Trouble could come...
...nuns' testimony will be worth the commotion. "Remember, we already had (DNC Finance Director) Richard Sullivan testify that John Huang assured Gore's staff that this wasn't going to be a fundraiser," she said. "People tend to forget that if the nuns' contributions went into a soft money account, they're perfectly legal even if they are foreign contributions. The nuns will provide some interesting testimony which will look bad for Huang," she said. "But so far as nailing Gore or anybody else, I don't think that's going to happen...
...position near Yogi. The next day, however, when the rover moved toward the rock to perform X-ray spectroscopy, says project scientist Justin Maki, "it got a little too enthusiastic." What really happened is that Sojourner's controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to take into account a small outcropping at the base of the rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began trying to climb it. As one of the rover wheels began rolling up the side of Yogi, sensors aboard Sojourner detected a tilt and shut down the little...
Thus physics finds itself in a great funk today because it cannot neatly account for all the new particles it keeps discovering. It is saddled with a particle zoo whose inventory has the bulk and elegance of a Chinese menu...
Sarah J. Schaffer '97 is interning this summer at San Diego Magazine. She may be reached at 73504.1040@compuserve.com or, if you want to make her really happy, through mail sent to and then forwarded from, her now defunct Harvard account...