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When Bush extols the "men and women who work hard, dream big, love their family, serve their neighbor," it brings tears to the eyes of New Democrat guru and Clinton friend Al From. A wonderful speech, he says. "I wish I'd written it. In fact I had, several years earlier." Bush gave three education speeches last fall, compared with just one on foreign policy and tax reform. With the exception of a provision for school vouchers, Bush's education plan was shamelessly similar to one the Democratic-leaning Progressive Policy Institute published in its journal...
...There's the dying and regretful media mogul (Jason Robards), his gold-digging but guilt-ridden wife (Julianne Moore), his devoted and compassionate caretaker (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the sickly and proud game show host (Philip Baker Hall), his angry and cocaine-addicted daughter (Melora Walters), the suspiciously confident seduction guru (Tom Cruise), the lovelorn and by-the-book police officer (John C. Reilly), the celebrated but pressured boy genius (Jeremy Blackman), and the despondent and pathetic ex-boy genius (William H. Macy...
When Pierre spotted me--the reporter's notebook was the tip-off--it was clear why I was drawing blanks. He looked nothing like the old photo I had dug up. He had abandoned his Internet-guru getup--the gawky glasses, the long ponytail--and now looked like any other well-dressed, thirtysomething Parisian. No car and driver. No p.r. entourage...
...that an interstate full of delivery trucks will spell the death of your mall. "People will go shopping in stores as a social activity," predicts high-tech guru Esther Dyson, but "there may be a lot of showrooms and fewer places where you actually take things home." Should you buy off-line, automatic in-store bar-code scanning may make checkout lines a thing of the past...
Such dedication is typical of sheepdog trialers--and it is reciprocated. "Dogs give you their all," says MacRae, sipping black coffee. "They return any affection tenfold. They're not gonna say nothin' behind your back." A grin creases the guru's windburned face. "On the whole, they're just nicer than folk...