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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...
...escort service. Maybe I should. Sometimes I simply like to walk. The shuttle can be crowded and hot, and it never seems to come when I need it. The libraries are over-heated and my head becomes cluttered with esoteric facts and my own neurotic obsessions. The cold crisp air can clear my thoughts. Walking home, feeling the blood rise to my cheeks from the cold is a literal breath of fresh air. And I want the option that I can walk if I want to. Of course, Harvard can't control the problems of urban living...
...picture the first time I met Bill Clinton, even though I was too young to remember it. It was a cool, crisp October day in 1978 in Danville, Arkansas, a small hamlet of 1,600 people in Yell County. The occasion was the Yell Country Fair, a veritable mecca for pols, both local and state...
Unlike the man he would replace, no one would ever mistake Gephardt for a revolutionary. With his flat Midwestern accent, his crisp, cuffless blue suits and his wispy, ginger-colored hair, he comes across as exactly what he is: careful and deliberate, encouraging but rarely inspiring. Where Gingrich prefers to back his opponents up against a wall, Gephardt would rather subdue them at the negotiating table. His willingness to sit and listen for hours while others gripe and posture has earned him the nickname "Ironbutt," courtesy of his colleagues...
...alerted by Houston police of the dangers of a new club drug called gamma hydroxybutyrate, or GHB, investigators decided to take a second look. Sure enough, Farias' tissues showed that she had died of a GHB overdose. "This kid was a role-model type," says La Porte Lieut. Carl Crisp. "There's nothing to indicate that she willingly took this drug...