Word: heyes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unabashedly patriotic, and if all of those beautiful, panoramic shots of Utah and the Pacific Northwest can't make you proud of this country, then nothing can. So if you can suspend your cynicism for a moment, there is something strangely rousing about watching the mail go through...hey, that's not what I meant...
Just as her grievance charging that DreamWorks stole her ideas for Amistad was getting some traction, novelist BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD got stuck in her own little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...
...This massive Las Vegas hotel with a "Central Park-themed" casino takes as its silhouette the Manhattan skyline and for good measure crams in Grant's Tomb, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. Did we mention the Coney Island roller coaster? Tasteless, you say? We say, beyond tasteless. Hey man, you got a problem with that...
...Deep Blue The IBM supercomputer decisively crushed human world-chess champion Garry Kasparov, dealing a humiliating blow to the self-esteem of carbon-based life-forms. At least until backpedaling commentators recalled the obvious: hey, the human race did build the damn thing in the first place...
...leaders from both parties pushed credits, reductions or deductions of the tax that hits the lunch-box crowd hardest: the payroll tax. While many Republicans talk about lowering income-tax rates, Senate majority leader TRENT LOTT last week named making payroll taxes deductible as a more likely reform. And, hey, Democrat TED KENNEDY's a big fan too, listing a cut as a top priority for next year. In a private make-nice meeting last week with House Democratic minority leader DICK GEPHARDT, White House chief of staff ERSKINE BOWLES said the Administration wants to champion its own idea. That...