Word: arens
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Which isn't to say that paranoids, and the Clintons, don't have real enemies--or that some of those enemies aren't linked, sometimes in bizarre, uncanny ways. Consider the couple's current chief tormentor, independent counsel Starr. Last year, in a decision he later reversed under pressure from Republican lawmakers, Starr announced that he was leaving his job to become dean of the law and public policy schools at California's Pepperdine University. The chair Starr had set his sights on, as it happened, was endowed by a certain Richard Mellon Scaife, an archconservative Pennsylvania billionaire who also...
...people are the ones we read and hear about all the time, but never see in the flesh. They are the student leaders, the sports heroes, the actors, the community-service organizers, the Rhodes Scholars, the Undergraduate Council presidents of our world. Or maybe they aren't particularly distinguished in anything at all, but chance throws them onto the front page of the paper again and again. Maybe they streaked in Primal Scream, or they were sitting up late in the library and appeared in a "slice-of-life" photo, or they were in line to get into some...
...part, and one of the 3-D people won it in our place. Either way, these people fall into an awkward category. We met them in some situation that we would either like to forget or believe that all normal people have already forgotten, and we therefore aren't allowed to talk to them. And after avoiding eye contact with them for a year or more, unwritten rules forbid us from ever smiling at them again--and we would never in a million years think of asking them their names or reminding them of ours...
...some disease, and then people will say to us, "Laundry-Basket Boy just rid the world of multiple sclerosis. Weren't you in college together?" Or maybe Pre-Frosh could have been a great friend of ours. We'll never know. What's embarrassing is not that we aren't part of their lives, but rather that they aren't part of ours. We see them everywhere and have never bothered to talk to them, and now we simply can't anymore...
...morass of camcorder specs? Sony's 1998 HandyCam models ($599-$1,399) still offer old standbys like SteadyShot and wireless TV playback, but the standout is the new NightShot feature. Heat-sensitive infrared sensors let you shoot in a pitch-black room, although the washed-out images aren't exactly ready for prime time...