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When the Bushes arrived for coffee Saturday morning, Bill Clinton was still nursing a paper cut on his finger. He had sliced it during a packing frenzy in the wee hours of Friday, and his friend Harry Thomason had tried to close the cut with Super Glue. Sorting his stuff through the night--an usher said the White House felt like a 7-Eleven all week--Clinton told a story about every gewgaw he was piling into boxes marked LIBRARY, CHAPPAQUA and WASHINGTON...
...alive" declarations and denials--drawn out, most likely, as various government factions fought over who should succeed him. American officials say they think the shooting was the result of an internal power struggle, a by-product of the country's bloody civil war. Some African analysts finger the Angolans, who were frustrated with Kabila's leadership. There was a glimmer of hope in the news: Western diplomats think Kabila's death may encourage the warring factions to seek peace...
...fearlessness in other venues too. Is she expected to plug her new picture and CD? Then she'll go on all the talk shows, even if it means being asked to discuss her boyfriend Sean ("Puff Daddy") Combs' imminent trial, during which, according to news reports, a witness may finger her as an accomplice. (Yes, she told Matt Lauer last week, she'd be willing to testify.) Maybe Lopez believes in honoring TV commitments, or maybe she simply has unsquashable cojones, but there's no doubt she's got It. She is what the old movie moguls would have called...
...honor of President George W. Bush, the show also belonged to the numerous protesters estimated at 20,000. They lined Pennsylvania Avenue waiting for the Presidential limousine to pass. When the limo did pass the crowd cheered "Hail to the thief" while waving with thumbs pointed down or one finger...
...Take, for instance, the seemingly hapless Minnesota Twins. The owner has deep pockets, he just chooses to keep his money where it is--in his pockets. If that organization is frustrated with its situation, they should take a look at themselves first before pointing a finger at the rest of the league as the problem...