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...years that distinction has gone to the person who (or, in two cases, the object that), for better or for worse, most affected the news and personified what was important about the year. Even had he won a simpler election, Bush would have been a strong contender. He remade and united the Republican Party and defeated a talented Vice President who had the wind at his back after eight years of wallet-popping prosperity. Bush's amiable demeanor tapped into a desire to end years of meaningless partisan rancor. Yet he was also controversial: he became the first President-elect...
...laptop lock. Most laptops come with a security slot in the back--it's that tiny hole with a padlock symbol next to it that you probably never knew what to do with--and the lock snaps right into it. Loop the other end around a fixed object, and you're golden. Laptop locks are all pretty much the same, but Kryptonite makes the one with the thickest cable, the 8-mm Mega Key Cable Lock ($49). A company called Kensington also makes a cable lock for Palms, but it's a little cumbersome for anybody but severe kleptophobes...
Even if Faculty members or students found the clubs' behavior disruptive or offensive in recent weeks, few chose to object. And with no complaints, police do not react...
...deeper question goes to Putin's motive. After all, with both Gusinsky and his arch-rival oligarch Boris Berezovsky in de facto exile, the president would appear to have disposed of two of his most significant enemies in the battle for Russian public opinion. Then again, if the object is a full-blown political and corporate takeover, or takedown, of Gusinsky's media empire, then exile may not have been enough. The next move may belong to a Spanish court, but the real mystery is Putin's wider game plan. And as ever with the poker-faced president...
...exhibition's auto-eroticism sector does, however, include one triumphal fetish--Larry Fuente's Derby Racer, 1975. Like some pious Latino decorating a shrine, Fuente glorified a convertible jalopy with an undulating crust of shards, beads, mirror fragments and pearly gewgaws. It is still a convincing, near folk object--an automotive equivalent, perhaps, to Simon Rodia's towers in the Watts neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles...