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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Within hours after Bush touched down in Iowa on June 12 and proved he could work a rope line, give a speech and kiss babies without falling on his face, those erstwhile doubters started "scrambling for their checkbooks," says the aide. Demand for tickets to a $500-a-head fund-raising lunch scheduled for three days later in Boston started to surge, pushing the total take for the event to $850,000 before the Bush campaign had to start turning people away at the door. The same thing happened at fund raisers across the country, converting what had been...
...February I was ordered to cross the Line of Control and climb some mountains that the Indians controlled. My commanding officers would not allow me to take my rifle. I was against going to an Indian hill without a weapon, but I saw everybody who was being sent across the Loc was going there empty-handed. We were told it was for the sake of secrecy. It took us three days of walking and climbing to reach the Indian posts. We found they were empty. Our job was to prepare makeshift bunkers...
Here's the pitch: capitalism thrives on the reduction of friction, and the Web is the most effective friction reducer since the assembly line. The dot-com revolution hit first for consumers; as soon as Amazon, for instance, put millions of discount books within buying reach of anyone with a modem and a credit card, ordinary bookstores had to change or die. "E-markets have had a very significant impact," says Tim Minahan, an e-commerce analyst for the Aberdeen Group. "And you're going to see that on the business side as well...
...junior tennis tournaments throughout the U.S. and paying for expensive lessons. She has also publicly acknowledged, since Alexandra was four, that she intended her daughter to play at Wimbledon. "When Alexandra was born, I realized that she was going to be my future," Samantha told reporters. "The bottom line is: I'm her mother, I want her to be happy...
...There?s that line in the Bible: ?Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord,?" says Dowell. "It doesn?t belong to Madeleine Albright. The U.S. wants to make Milosevic pay for what he did, but there?s a point when they have to consider Serbia?s welfare ahead of the political pain they?d feel from letting him retire unpunished." Would Milosevic, addicted to power, ever take the back way out? "He?d be tempted," says Dowell. "And a standing offer would make those close to him wonder how long he?d be around. They?d have to think about cutting...