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...technology as John Kennedy used television in the 1960 campaign. Beyond advertising, Forbes has kept his faithful marinated in daily e-mails targeted at their interests. The campaign has tried to re-create the old ward-politics feel, assigning "e-precincts" and "e-captains" to empower volunteers to gather supporters by e-mail across the U.S. Says Rick Segal, the Forbes Webmaster, who sits in on the campaign's strategy sessions: "How will we know if the Internet paid off? If Steve Forbes wins Iowa...
With Duehay's retirement, the council only has three CCA members--Born, Jim Braude and Davis--making it hard for Born to gather the necessary five votes to get elected mayor. Though Decker has voted for Born so far, she has not yet been able to garner the elusive fifth vote, and Decker's vote is not entirely secure...
...MEMORABLE MOMENT] The cognitive dissonance brought on by having Charlie Brown and a performance of the song Shall We Gather at the River? on the same stage...
...speeches, Levin likes to tell listeners about a game that H.G. Wells invented called Cheat the Prophet. Here's how to play: gather the smartest group of futurists you can find, ask them to describe the future, proceed to go out and undertake everything the futurists consider unthinkable or downright laughable. That's been Levin's career--and Case's. For decades the idea that every home in America would be wired with cable--or connected to a subscription online service--seemed unreasonable and even laughable in many minds...
...resigns, he has to pack up and go," says the Jesuit scholar Thomas Reese. If he retires after 80 (an age he will reach in May), he would not be allowed to attend the conclave that will gather to elect his successor. But John Paul II in living retirement would also be an influence too powerful to ignore, even if he is not anywhere near the voting cardinals. He is probably aware that every new Pope in the past 300 years has been dramatically different from his predecessor. John Paul II may have forestalled that by naming some...