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Sitting in the Kirkland dining hall last Thursday, I divulged to a friend (with barely repressed excitement) that I would be soon possess the Holy Grail of college life—a real ID—when I turned 21 at midnight. After the requisite “dude, that’s awesome” and “find me later and I’ll buy you a shot,” he dropped the bombshell...
...that covers initiatives ranging from toughening the war against drugs and providing rural areas with access to computer technologies to the creation of a pan-American network of weather forecasters to assist in the management of natural disasters. And the meeting will undoubtedly announce significant progress toward the Holy Grail of the summit process: the creation of a giant Free Trade Area of the Americas by 2005, encompassing 800 million people and economies worth a collective $11 trillion...
...maybe not. The economy may indeed have skirted that recession - look at Friday's unemployment numbers for the latest clue - and tech toughs like Cisco, at $15, may indeed be underpriced. Certainly, the bulls' Holy Grail these days is that someday soon, there'll be no earnings disappointments left to deepen Wall Street's funk - and Dell filled that role on Wednesday...
...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, designated tie-breaker Dick Cheney and his old, old heart snapped to attention. On Friday, the hot wind on the Senate floor was again swirling around tax cuts, surpluses and national priorities, and after keeping to the sidelines while McCain accepted his Holy Grail, George W. Bush can get back to the fundamental question of his presidency thus far: Is changing the tone of Washington really worth compromising...
...humor and a handful of commentary on current events, and will avoid at all costs "meta" jokes about the cartoonist not having time to think of a good joke because she is too stressed with her manic Harvard life and too busy searching the Cue Guide for that Holy Grail of a decent Core. Her cartoon appears on Fridays...