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...said and done in his name and under his authority, but the man himself was barely seen or heard. Since the morning after the stillborn election, Austin's strategy was to have Bush be the victor who must patiently tolerate a few technicalities. But Gore's plan to chip away at that notion has had an effect. It helped that Gore won the popular vote. And the Gore message--count all the votes--may have been expedient, but it was also simple. Bush's response wasn't: We can't trust people to count the votes fairly, he said...
...Gateway Connected Touch Pad ($599) drew the biggest crowds. It has a touchscreen, so you can pick it up like a notebook and write directly on its screen with a stylus. While it's easy to use, it's also technologically cutting edge: a low-power Crusoe chip gives it extra-long battery life, and instead of Microsoft's Windows it runs the crash-proof operating system Linux. Needless to say, Bill Gates was not spotted admiring this...
...class comedy bully, which is not the class clown. I came up with funny things that caught on - nicknames and anthropomorphic cartoons and such. I genuinely liked the people I was making fun of, I just couldn't resist making fun of them. I lacked the empathy chip. I thought I was just having a good time. Because a lot of the people I made fun of were good friends of mine. Sometimes I was their best friend. I'd just be like, "Come on, you're 12 years old and you have tits. That's funny...
Even more impressive was Hill's winning of the 1999 Chip Hilton Award. The distinction is given to a Division I men's basketball player who, in demonstrating strong personal character, meets the competitive and ethical standards that were the theme of the 23-book Chip Hilton series...
...Under the deal, BMG will pull out of the Napster case as soon as the company develops a for-pay version of the service that accommodates the rights of copyright holders. Bertelsmann will also chip in with a loan in the tens of millions - most of which will be sunk into developing song- and user-tracking technology, which is how royalties will be toted up - in exchange for options on as much as 58 percent of Napster...