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...almost no Republican in Washington likes, John McCain, suddenly stood a chance to grab the party's nomination from the well-liked, well-named Governor of Texas. The 18-point New Hampshire crevasse had swallowed up the party that had been sliding along blithely since the failure of the Contract with America, the fall of the House of Gingrich and the nightmare of impeachment. Outside the bubbles of Washington and Austin, the true threat that McCain posed to Bush was abundantly clear. One runs on candor and fumes; the other hides in the motorcade. One takes a punch and looks...
...pleaser is "Rub One Out" (and the "Rub One Out" Dream Maker Club Mix) which tackles that most taboo of subjects while ejaculation noises gurgle in the background: "Rub one out baby, Don't be shy / Rub one out girl, Don't ask why / Rub one out and I grab my crotch / Rub one out, do you wanna watch...
...just a fantasy. In real life I share a tiny apartment with a roommate and am lucky if I get to grab a bagel before racing to the subway each morning. But when I flick on my computer to play The Sims, the new game out this week from Maxis that lets me explore alternate identities in intricate detail, that fantasy becomes my virtual reality. Taking the genre of simulation games to the extreme, The Sims lets you play puppeteer and watch your own drama unfold. Whether it's a Norman Rockwell dream come true or a Stephen King nightmare...
...seemed less memorable than their breathless sound bites. (Fettuccine Alfredo, for example, was called "a heart attack on a plate.") "A lot of this stuff makes sense," says economist James Bennett, author of The Food and Drink Police. "But sometimes it seems they're just out to grab headlines...
...fashioned beer-and-radio type, grab Specialthing's radio. The bottle tops are control knobs, and there's a built-in bottle opener. Not yet priced