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...body. His body art was a litany of racist images, including Nazi SS lightning bolts, Klan emblems and a black man lynched from a tree. One witness, psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon, suggested the tattoos may have been a way to make the 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. King look forbidding to threatening black inmates. By standing up to blacks, another witness said, he became part of a group known as "peckerwoods," whites who would not yield money or sexual favors to blacks...
When I got my svelte, 4-lb. IBM Thinkpad last year, it made my old Mac PowerBook look obese. At 7 lbs., the Mac was a laptop in the same way that a bull mastiff is a lapdog. You need a pretty big lap. But my ThinkPad was so small and powerful, I figured I'd take it everywhere. On the train, Mr. Productivity would write his columns, answer his e-mail and even "test" a game...
...lighter than its 3.2-lb. cousin, as well as $100 cheaper. But I'd buy the Tripad, which has a larger (9.4-in.) screen and an easier-to-use keyboard. The Tripad's screen pivots on two arms, so you can flip it down over the keyboard and use it for, say, data entry. This feature is less useful to me than to a UPS guy perhaps or a tax accountant. Still, I enjoyed the flexibility of positioning the screen just where I wanted...
...CLAIM TO FAME] Strapped to a 20-lb. stenograph...
...other than that, I haven't missed it, even the spectacle of impeachment or the trial or Sammy Sosa's getting a bigger hand during the State of the Union than the "U.S.A." savings idea did or that 1955 Dave Garroway 10-lb. microphone Senator Byrd likes to wear. After 228 consecutive shows that were wholly or mostly Monica, last year feels like a rip in the space-time continuum, a historical skid as inexplicable as the election of 1876 or the hairstyle you wore...