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...much. Embellishment takes a certain amount of calculation, and most of Bush's RAM is used up trying to remember who's covered and who isn't under his own Medicare prescription plan. Bush, who boasts of his preference for one-page memos over books, obviously wanted the bell to ring badly on Tuesday night. He affably admitted he needs help, naming everyone but the Texas Rangers bat boy on the list of experts he would call on in a crisis...
...final bell, it was clear no one had lost the debate - if anything, both candidates walked away in much better shape than they had last Tuesday. Gore was studiously calm, and kept his exhalations under control, while Bush managed a few jabs at self-deprecating humor that seemed to go over well with the audience. There was far less tension on stage than there?d been in Boston, and far less interrupting; it was a very pleasant, informative and bone-dry exchange. Which is exactly what we want from our politicians...
...Yahoo. After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more...
...original site for the Tennis Centre was a brick pit that turned out to be the breeding ground for the rare GREEN AND GOLDEN BELL FROG. Half a million dollars was then spent to create a lush new habitat for the frogs in the pit, but many of the creatures declined to use their new digs. The Centre was built elsewhere...
...particularly striking in its musical originality. Peter Frampton was experimenting with electronic voice manipulation when my parents were still in college, the synthesized matrix in the album's title track resembles devices Bjork has been employing since Post, "Optimistic" could easily be mistaken for an R.E.M. tune and "Morning Bell" sounds like a track cut from Portishead's Dummy...