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...average viewer, the studio host of the 1999 X Games was ESPN's college football anchor moonlighting as a skateboarding guru for some extra summer cash. But as I quickly realized, this was not the case. Instead, he was an enthusiastic street luge fanatic who was hosting his fifth straight X Games, budgeting his work schedule around times for him to attend the events and cheer on the competitors. On a more personal note, he worked out four times a week and by some accounts ate a full box of Metr-X bars for breakfast each morning, resulting...
...stocks are also likely to sink if the U.S. market falls. Long term, they make a lot of sense. Barton Biggs, emerging-markets guru at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, predicts that "coming out of the next cyclical bear market," whenever that may be, "emerging markets are going to be the place of maximum outperformance." Even if he's right, you've got plenty of time...
...other candidates until they saw what young George was going to do. Michigan Governor John Engler, meanwhile, was recruiting a mighty power base among the nation's G.O.P. Governors, the only Republicans who got away with their shirts after the 1998 elections. From his nest down in Austin, campaign guru Karl Rove lured moneymen and operatives from every important state into a Virtual Smoke-Filled Room built out of calls and faxes and 300 e-mails a day. And all the while, Prince George stayed home, breaking all the rules of politics and inventing his own. He went nowhere near...
...Streamline -- founded in 1993 by, among others, trend guru Faith Popcorn -- offers a service so simple and seductive, it's a wonder they're the first ones to think of it. When you sign up for Streamline, the company dispatches a special team to your home armed with bar code scanners to help you come up with what they call a PSL ? a Personal Shopping List that enumerates all the products that you regularly bring into your home. And that's not just groceries ? it includes video rentals, dry cleaning, postage stamps, even the photos from your latest trip abroad...
...skill that he was named comandante, the insurgents entered Havana and launched what was to become the first and only victorious socialist revolution in the Americas. The images were thereafter invariably gigantic. Che the titan standing up to the Yanquis, the world's dominant power. Che the moral guru proclaiming that a New Man, no ego and all ferocious love for the other, had to be forcibly created out of the ruins of the old one. Che the romantic mysteriously leaving the revolution to continue, sick though he might be with asthma, the struggle against oppression and tyranny...