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Indeed, Chewbacca is a cluster of enigmas: Why isn't he off at his end of the galaxy looking for a mate? Has he been sold into slavery? Is that metal strap a fashion statement? A restraint device? Does he really enjoy interstellar space travel? Is it just a way to pay the bills...
...phone in Gates' office almost never rings. Nor do phones seem to ring much anywhere on the suburban Microsoft "campus," a cluster of 35 low-rise buildings, lawns, white pines and courtyards that resemble those of a state polytechnic college. Gates runs his company mainly through three methods: he bats out a hundred or more E-mail messages a day (and night), often chuckling as he dispatches them; he meets every month or so with a top management group that is still informally known as the boop (Bill and the Office of the President); and most important, taking...
...lumbers over to a table where he has gathered some pictures of summer vacations they used to take with friends at a cluster of rental cabins known as Cheerio on the Hood Canal, about two hours away. There were nightly campfires, family skits and the type of organized competitive games the Gates family loved. "On Saturdays there was a tennis tournament, and on Sundays our Olympics, which were a mixture of games and other activities," Bill Sr. recalls. "Trey was more into the individual sports, such as water skiing, than the team ones...
...combination of price hikes and a deft reconfiguring, or "remerchandising," of casket showrooms to ensure that customers buy caskets with far better profit margins. At the same time, they cut their costs by buying caskets and other materiel de mort at volume discounts and by linking funeral homes in clusters that share hearses, embalming rooms and other services. You may deposit your late Uncle Harry in that luxurious if slightly creepy Colonial house on the corner, but these days you have no guarantee he will stay there. This centralization can increase the risk of administrative errors like the one that...
...arrest is a vindication of safeguards put into place after Ames had evaded detection for so long. For years the CIA ignored signs that Ames was on the Soviet payroll. Now any personal troubles or financial windfalls are noted in an officer's file as "anomalies." Those can cluster into an incriminating "matrix" that might lead to a full investigation. "At any given time we have literally dozens and dozens of cases at every agency that raise questions," says FBI Director Louis Freeh. "Sometimes it's just a polygraph, and sometimes someone has plunked down $100,000 for a boat...