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...possibly the most reductive question ever posed to presidential candidates, Lehrer whipped out a laundry list of past U.S. military interventions, including Lebanon, the Gulf War and Somalia, and asked both for a pro- or con- position statement. Here, Gore?s response was more thoughtful, but Bush got a much-needed chuckle when he reminded Lehrer, "You know, I?ve got kind of a conflict of interest on some of these, if you know what I mean...
...Harvard student turned soldier. The neophyte didn't even know what the phrase "hit your mark" meant; star Morgan Freeman gave him a "five-minute crash course in how to act." He has since done film, TV and stage turns in roles from Henry V to an ex-con/karaoke singer in the current Duets...
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...Smith, a Houston oil executive. He upgraded his computer five years ago specifically to dump his broker and trade online. He checks the financial Web postings and tunes in to chat sessions on the market. But he also does his own research and notes that the hype-and-con element of Wall Street isn't just online. "Highly paid analysts hype Internet stocks with outrageous price targets, then drop their estimates," he says. "I am sure they get their firms out of a position before they drop the bomb on the rest of the investing public...
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