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...Rich read from her book Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998, the renowned poet and feminist captured her audience so completely that loud expulsions of breath could be heard following each set of verses...
...hold virtual meetings anytime and anyplace. No more playing telephone tag or pulling down an e-mail screen. Instead, IM users can spot who is online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would have instantly shared their expertise...
...risky business. The army's undercover unit, which has its own big storeroom full of Arab clothing, wigs and makeup, shot one of its men six years ago when he was disguised as an Arab. On a midnight raid in August, the unit killed three of its own men--who weren't disguised at the time--as they tried to arrest bombmaker Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, a member of the militant Islamic group Hamas. Some of the undercover soldiers get only three weeks of Arabic training before they're sent into dangerous situations. But when they succeed, the undercover squads...
...with Gore in his hotel room the week before last. Having completed a day of Regis, Oprah, Saturday Night Live and the Al Smith dinner, and set to wake up at 5 a.m. to do the Today show, he stretched out and had a beer. It was close to midnight. He should have been exhausted. Instead, in answer to my questions, he sailed into exquisitely detailed, many-referenced and well-over-my-head explanations of the economy, the arms race and anything else his mind embraced...
...incident that led to the DUI arrest was hardly dramatic. Bush, then 30, was driving down Kennebunkport's Ocean Avenue after midnight on the way to his family's summer compound. He had been drinking beers that night with his sister Dorothy, Australian tennis star John Newcombe and Newcombe's wife. Officer Bridges, just getting off duty, saw Bush's car slipping briefly onto the shoulder before getting back on the road. Bridges stopped the car and asked Bush to take a balloon test. The result: an alcohol level over Maine's 0.10 legal limit. Bush readily admitted...