Word: john
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Their accommodations were primitive: an air mattress on a concrete floor in a two-room school and an outdoor shower with only cold water. The work of weeding and raking under a blinding blue sky was demanding, but John Krausser, 63, and his wife Traudi, 59, didn't mind. They were, after all, in the peaceful countryside of Greece, and the view of olive groves, the craggy Peloponnesian terrain and the ocean was spectacular...
...little school. When the Kraussers weren't wearing shorts and T shirts, they were in swimsuits. After four hours' work under the blazing morning sun, they had afternoons free and soon discovered a beautiful sweeping sand beach frequented only by a few local families. "This became our favorite spot," John says, "where we would swim, sunbathe and read." Surrounded by all that beauty, who wouldn't put up with an air mattress...
...topic too. So even if the advice makes you flinch ("Let your man do the pursuing in matters of the heart"), you'll still have fun with the clever CD-ROM game Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus ($30; Mattel), based on the best-selling book by John Gray...
Steve Jobs can. Though he has no more to do with the creation of Pixar movies than, say, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin had to do with The Matrix, he is a whiz at cajoling, nudging and cheering on John Lasseter and the other gentle geniuses in the Pixar cave to get stuff done. So with a great push, Toy Story 2 will be ready for its Nov. 24 release. It's nearly completed now, and judging by a sneak peek last week, we'd say it looks like high-comic computer...
...morning, a surprising blow came at the hands of a New York Republican power broker. Staten Island borough president Guy Molinari, who months earlier had thrown his weight behind the Texas governor, announced he would head up the New York campaign of Bush's chief GOP opponent, Arizona senator John McCain. Molinari has had close connections to Bush, having run his father's 1992 New York presidential campaign. Molinari was cryptic about the sudden switch, saying Bush did nothing to dissuade him but that McCain "is best able to continue the legacy of leadership of George Bush and Ronald Reagan...