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...Gore must take comfort in the story of Andrew Jackson. A Tennessean like Gore, Jackson won the popular vote in the presidential election of 1828 but lost the election itself; a lot of folks thought he was robbed. Four years later, Old Hickory won the White House in a landslide. That may help explain why Gore has chosen, as his first big public moment after eight months in the post-election wilderness, to deliver the keynote address at next month's Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa--the same high-profile party event at which Gore, in 2000, played oratorical...
...month in a proceeding that could last as long as a year. He has already been through Japan's standard detention period--15 days in his case but sometimes as long as 23--during which a suspect is questioned without the presence of a lawyer. Denied bail, Woodland can comfort himself with English-language books, a Bible and American-style meals but no cigarettes, TV or air conditioning in heat that often tops 100[degrees]F. He isn't allowed to speak or write to friends and family. His mother, Arlene Jordan, who works in the engineering-services department...
...board's approval for a turnaround plan. At the heart of his strategy was a return to the company's roots--sharp, provocative design. In addition, he began pushing innovation from his engineers. They came up with Reebok's DMX technology, a sole containing numerous air channels for cushioned comfort, and Traxtar, a line of shoes for kids that contain built-in computer chips and motion sensors that measure the wearer's running speed and jumping height. "Most people's view of entrepreneurs is that their business eventually outgrows them," says Reebok CFO Ken Watchmaker. "We've learned the hard...
...signal event was the rise of the paperback Zagat restaurant guides, which compile the opinions of actual customers who replied to questionnaires. Beginning in 1979 with a single volume devoted to New York City, the Zagat empire has expanded to 45 cities and, of course, a website. There is comfort in knowing that the Zagat reviewers are ordinary diners who paid for their meals and had the real experience of a place, not the special treatment accorded to food critics who might be known to the chef. "Some critics sniff, Well, what does the public know?" says Merrill Shindler...
...territory and destroying two houses from which snipers had allegedly fired on Jewish settlers down below, seriously wounding an 11-year-old boy and lightly wounding his older brother. The incident, however, is a reminder why Hebron is a microcosm of today's West Bank - one that holds little comfort for anyone hoping for an early restoration of the collapsed peace process...