Word: moment
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...borrow a phrase (and a pseudonym), meet Joe Black, as played by Brad Pitt, who has a real gift for standing around looking cute and stupid. He appears, along with chest pains and some numbness in the left arm, at an inconvenient moment in the life of an even more unlikely figure--a media mogul with a conscience--named William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins). Parrish is fighting off a takeover bid from a less savory rival and grouchily submitting to having his 65th birthday celebrated at one of those parties of the century that seem to occur once a month...
...Gingrich. But the surprising election of 1998 did more than take a load off one man's shoulders and put it on another's till he dropped. It brought home that all year the governing majority in Congress has done just about anything but govern. From the moment in January that Monica Lewinsky became as famous as Michael Jordan, official Washington and its media auxiliary have been transfixed by the President's sex drive. And for a while, who wasn't? But in time most people moved back to matters nearer at hand--getting ahead, getting settled, getting more sleep...
Only at one moment did Gingrich appear to back off. He suggested it might take more than a "simple human mistake" to incur impeachment. He may have feared the press might revisit the litany of his simple human mistakes of a sexual nature first detailed in Vanity Fair in September 1995. Otherwise, Gingrich went full bore, vowing at one point to "never again, as long as I am Speaker, make a speech without commenting" on the Monica mess and to start calling a crime a crime. Gingrich lieutenant majority whip Tom DeLay set up a Monica war room, the first...
Justice's own witnesses have been more forthcoming--and have shown far better recall. Tevanian recounted a sinister moment in which an Apple executive, surprised by a Microsoft demand that his company drop a promising software application, asked, "Do you want us to knife the baby?" Yes, the Microsoft executive reportedly replied, "we're talking about knifing the baby." During Tevanian's testimony, Judge Jackson showed his first flash of anger, tearing into a Microsoft lawyer for his overly technical and at times "misleading" questioning style...
FSCs are but one of scores of corporate-welfare programs run out of Washington. At any given moment, one U.S. agency or another is passing out money or tax breaks--to subsidize activities ranging from shipbuilding to coal research, from the sale of U.S.-made weapons overseas to peanut farming. Washington helps buy crop insurance for tobacco, builds roads into national forests for the timber industry, sells minerals on public lands at bargain-basement rates and offers cut-rate electricity for businesses like casinos. The Feds help shippers that use inland waterways and bail out American banks with loans gone...