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...Patriots' winning ways and playoff spot could be misunderstood as a regular occurrence. But for those of us aware of the gloomy history, this team is finally doing what it should have done several years ago. We've put in the blood, sweat and tears (or at least the couch-potato minutes) to really appreciate every successful touchdown pass. Thus, it is our job to educate our dormmates, reminding them of the pain of every interception or fourth-down failure. "Look," I say excitedly. "We actually converted on 4th and 1!" My friends have learned to just nod and smile...
...McLarty with him as his right hand. That didn't work out very well. Four years later, his new chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, is a man he first met in 1992, and bonded with so close, so fast that even Bowles' admirers have to reach deep into the couch for an explanation. Bowles, says a White House aide, is what a 10-year-old Clinton would have considered a successful real grownup: "He has money, real self-assurance, he knows what he is in the world, and has class." Asked last year whom Clinton trusts, an aide answered, "Hillary...
Long dismissed as just for rural folk, satellite dishes are now the entertainment system of choice for real couch potatoes. DirecTV has led the anti-cable charge, beaming crisp, digital pictures from 150 movie and sports channels to pizza-size discs (available from RCA and Sony) below. ($200 to $400 [dish] and $15 to $65 monthly [programming]; DirecTV...
...Morris debacle and discovered that there wasn't any. In fact, 37% of voters said the scandal made them more likely to vote for Clinton. The pollsters could offer no explanation of why this should be so. When Penn reported it at the meeting, Gore looked over at the couch where Penn and Schoen were sitting. "If things get tight," he said with a smile, "one of y'all's gonna have to go next...
...from Oracle's databases--including a bare-bones desktop NC for as little as $300, an NC executive phone and an NC set-top box that will plug into a standard TV, letting home viewers surf the Web and send E-mail from the comfort of their living-room couch...