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...more than a little trouble. When the first response from the campaign is laughter, it usually means the campaign is teetering. Bush communications director Karen Hughes said she first heard of the ad's hidden message last night when a colleague called her laughing. Hughes said she, too, had burst out laughing when she saw the controversial "hatchet lady" TV spot of a few weeks ago attacking Gore's character, and that ad turned out to be a disaster...
...Predictably, MP3 spokespeople expressed disappointment with the judge's decision, just as record executives everywhere burst into cheers. This is unlikely to be the last go-around over online music distribution; as the topic (and the practice) heats up, each wave of new users is almost guaranteed to be closely followed by a new wave of lawsuits...
During a visit to East Timor last year, a man rushed up to Annan, burst into tears and began recounting everything that was happening. Annan--already overbooked and running late--stayed with him for more than an hour. In Kosovo he sat with a 100-year-old woman who could only say over and over again, "How could this happen to me at my age?" Annan is not a physically expansive man, but he held the woman's hand and listened without moving...
...people reached a preliminary conclusion that the accident was set in motion by a ruptured tire. Pierced by a strip of metal, the tire virtually exploded, sending bits of rubber into the huge fuel tanks in the Concorde's wings. "It is clear to us all that a tire burst alone should never cause a loss of a public-transport aircraft," said Sir Malcolm Field, head of Britain's Civil Aviation Authority. The British say the Concordes are to remain parked until "appropriate measures" are taken to guarantee the tires' safety...
There was a silence at the other end. Then a burst of hysterically nervous laughter. Then he hung up. And when she called back, she got his voicemail...