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...life to tap the comic angst of the human condition. Watch, and you'll see one from each of the major office types: the tightly coiled executive producer (played by Miguel Ferrer of Twin Peaks), who humors Freundlich with drunken promises of future anchordom written on a cocktail napkin; the booker (Sanaa Lathan), who reports that the Pontiff is unavailable but she has on hold the guy who shot him. There's Gale, who ridicules Freundlich's melodramatic pauses but turns down an on-air spot with another network because it is not as dedicated to journalism...
From the "backyard smokehouse," the uninspired BBQ Chicken and Rib Combo ($10.95), with the choice of three sauces, featured a great cut of meat. But should ribs really be a one-napkin dish...
...speak from experience. We participate in many undergraduate activities. We have plenty of time to argue over American foreign policy at dinner or to debate the aesthetic value of our napkin dispensers. We wouldn't trade that part of the Harvard experience for a Ph.D. But the beauty of Advanced Standing is that we never had to make that choice. Most Advanced Standing students stay for four years, and face virtually no external obstacles to participation or advancement...
...movie version of Segal's book. When Jones won an Oscar in 1994 for The Fugitive, Gore tried to phone congratulations to him backstage, "but somebody kept hanging up on me," Gore said. "It was, 'Sure you're Al Gore'--click." Then he moved on, grabbing a cocktail napkin to diagram a new system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through it all, he never let anything slip or allowed the conversation to turn back to the job. When he praised a pbs documentary on Harry Truman, a reporter observed that as Vice President, Truman rarely saw F.D.R. Gore changed...
...Ebbers was ripe for the kind of transformation that business legends are made of. In a Days Inn diner in Hattiesburg, Miss., goes WorldCom lore, Ebbers and some partners scratched out on a napkin a plan for a phone company that would resell WATS long-distance service to local businesses. The name for the company--Long Distance Discount Services--supposedly came from a helpful waitress. "The only experience Bernie had operating a long-distance carrier was that he used the phone," recalls an investor in the original enterprise, which changed its name to WorldCom...