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...service, brainchild of ex-Wall Streeter Jeff Bezos, 33, is widely considered the hottest retail site in cyberspace. Few book lovers would forgo entirely the joys of browsing an actual bookstore, but Amazon offers considerable pleasures of its own. The site is so fast and responsive it almost feels alive; it's thrilling to have every title in the language at your fingertips, and reader-produced reviews add a layer of egalitarian interactivity. In the past year everyone from Business Week to the New Yorker has sung Amazon's praises. Bill Gates buys books there, and he doesn't even...
...stylish Mondrian hotel last month, he was barraged by passersby expressing their enthusiasm about his return. "We can't wait for you, man," said one. Arsenio returned a beaming thank you. It is hard to imagine that after The Arsenio Hall Show ended he thought he was ready to forgo the limelight for good. "For a minute I thought that maybe show business wasn't for me," he says not long before energetically racing off to JonValdi, whose owners opened up the shop for him past midnight...
Steigerwald said she hopes that the unique nature of this program will attract participants who ordinarily forgo community service because they need a paying...
...mother, Wonbok Lee, says she was anxious to send him to college so he could be challenged academically. In fact, she says she hoped he would forgo his senior year in high school to attend college...
...casting a vote. Being locked into a certain place to vote or the complications of absentee balloting are still obstacles. For the 57 years we have been married, my wife and I have exercised our voting privileges, rain or shine, but we were sorely tempted this election to forgo that right. The numerous propositions and initiatives, the widely differing backgrounds and experience of the candidates and their claims and counterclaims were intimidating. If we don't increase voter participation, we are heading down the path to autocracy! WILLIAM A. DIXON San Jose, California...