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This year, my brother-in-law Charlie Brind caught two muskies the first evening, small but comely, a propitious sign - except that one of the fish bit Charlie on the finger as he worked the hook loose. After that, nothing...
...some point during a harried and sleepless night and next day, I hook up with Lehane, a sort of higher-pitched, 78-rpm Mike McCurry who likes to use words like "indefatigable" and ask reporters if they're sure the world wouldn't be a better place if they quoted him using the word "indefatigable." On the trip, Lehane is the semi-porous membrane between reporter and Big Cheese, and press requests are supposed to go through him. So I'm more than a little worried when he tells me the e-mail proposal sounds fine, but that he doesn...
...Tipper were the inspiration for Erich Segal's "Love Story," but a love story was exactly we got tonight: the first-person story of a wife obviously smitten with her husband, starting with their first meeting, a night out where they threw over their respective dates to hook up with each other. (Here is the difference between Al Gore and Bill Clinton: Al dumps his young lady for some other hottie and his campaign goes out of its way to spread the story, to humanize him.) Tipper's job tonight: to pledge her love to her husband convincingly enough that...
...parent company), AOLTV lets you send instant messages to friends right from the TV screen as you watch your favorite soap, baseball game or reality-TV show. AOLTV also lets you surf the Net and read e-mail. Best of all, you don't need a computer. Instead, you hook a VCR-like box up to your TV and run a phone cord from the box to the nearest jack. A wireless keyboard lets you lounge as you click...
...planned our party itineraries. I made sure they didn't hook up with anyone nasty. I guarded them when they were drunk and walked them home whenever possible. All in all, I had a terrible time...