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...messages will be sent in Western Europe alone in 2003, which means €18 billion in turnover for mobile operators. With roughly 60% of Europe's 250 million mobile users able to use SMS, it's little wonder that the medium is being used to market everything from lip balm to balm for the soul. Even the Pope is getting in on the act. The Vatican announced last week that it would offer customers of TIM, Italy's largest mobile phone operator, an SMS prayer, saint or gospel each day - for a mere €.15. For now, the service...
Although the Dins lip-synched on the Wellesley stage, they had plenty of opportunities for bone fide singing, with the undisputed highlight of the experience singing for the leading lady herself. “The Dins bring me back to simpler times,” Julia Roberts said, according...
...campaign rally, bristles when forced to make small talk with anyone not on his mental list of people worth his time. Told earlier this year that his schedule included 30 minutes of schmoozing with small-bore donors after a fund-raising speech in the Midwest, Cheney curled his lip and, without even looking at the aide who delivered the news, said, "Make it five." In fact, he was gone three minutes after finishing his speech. "He likes fewer, longer conversations," explains Matalin. "He's not a Georgetown, look-over-your-shoulder, cocktail-party kind...
...Gore. In a terse written statement, Lott apologized to "anybody who was offended" by his "poor choice of words." But the Washington Post reported that Lott had used almost identical words in praise of Thurmond's segregationist campaign during comments in Mississippi in 1980. A slip of the lip suddenly looked like a pattern and opened a public exhumation of Lott's long record of votes and statements hostile to the civil rights movement...
That's a big problem for him and for his party. When Lott utters the word visionary or intellectual, he usually does so through a curled lip. He is admired not as an author of important legislation but rather as an inside player--someone who can forge just the right compromise to get someone else's bill passed. That's one reason Lott's extensive public statements and voting record on civil rights matters did not get much national attention until last week. It also helps explain why he was so slow to address the controversy over his comments...