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...Gore was in fuller command than he had ever been, drawing his circle in the dining room of the Naval Observatory tighter around him. By the end, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and campaign chairman Bill Daley seemed to weary of the war for which they had been drafted. But Gore's family stayed there as it always had, maybe even more, maybe too much. "Up there, Karenna's vote counts the same as Warren Christopher's," an angry strategist grumbled about Gore's eldest child and most dedicated warrior. Though Karenna was teary-eyed at her father...
...since Charles Dickens has a novelist writing in English achieved Rowling's command over a whole society--young and not so young, of modest means and with money to flambe--and the Dickens analogy quickly outlives its usefulness. None of his novels were simultaneous best sellers in dozens of languages; the 19th century world was a markedly slower place than our own. And Dickens' audience had none of the distractions that beguile Rowling's readers: no radio, films, recorded music, TV, video and computer games, the Internet. For years, literary culture has been portrayed as gasping on life support, sustained...
...happens, the whole business is turning. Last year, for the first time in decades, Americans' consumption of carbonated soft drinks actually declined. Sodas still command the biggest share of sips in the U.S., but it's the entrepreneurial upstarts like SoBe, Nantucket Nectars, Fresh Samantha and Honest Tea that are making people thirsty. While the nonbubbly business is growing almost 10% a year--and bottled water is chugging along at a rapid, 30% clip--sodas have suddenly gone flat. Noncarbs, which generally command higher prices, now account for more than half of all industry growth, according to Sanford Bernstein...
...muzzle flash from the Tanzim next to Aida's main mosque, 300 yds. away. "They want to make me hit the mosque and get the people more fired up," he thought at the time. Mor picked up the red phone that is on a direct line to his commander, Colonel Marcel Aviv. They spoke quickly, then Aviv listened in as Mor guided a helicopter into place above the target. At Mor's command, five missiles hammered into the refugee camp. Two hit the upper floors of the rough, cinder-block home of Omar Da'ajna. The Palestinian cook later said...
...possibly also Bosnia and Macedonia, would plunge into, if not outright war, then at least a permanent state of low-intensity conflict. But even more important for Washington, I don't think the U.S. can pull troops from harm's way in the Balkans and then still demand command and control over NATO troops in Europe. The U.S. would lose its moral claim to maintain the tradition that the commander of NATO in Europe is an American general. And I'm not really sure that Bush is prepared to have the U.S. accept a second-fiddle role in NATO...