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...Jonathan Wetstein and his friends at Parsippany High School, N.J., made 01-01-01 TRUE MILLENNIUM T shirts, and plan to watch the ball drop in a pal's basement...
...Finally, Bush pal Don Evans took his turn at the podium to accept his nomination as commerce secretary. A friend of the President-elect for nearly a quarter century, Evans is credited with reinvigorating Bush's religious faith during a difficult period in both men's lives. The oil executive has also been Bush's chief fund-raiser since 1978, and is a staunch advocate of "free markets and free enterprise." He is expected to focus primarily on domestic economic policy issues...
...poll numbers are an eloquent testimony to the power of silence. After all, Netanyahu (like his pal Newt Gingrich) took himself off the scene entirely after his humiliating defeat by Barak only 18 months ago, and his support has grown largely on a wave of anxiety over Barak's handling of the Palestinian uprising. But he won't be able to translate that support into a comeback victory without the help of the legislature, or perhaps even the court. Netanyahu needs parliament to either overturn the special law under which Barak called the election, or else to proceed quickly with...
Recently, though, I came into possession of what may be the ultimate weapon for people like me who hate cell-phone abusers: the C-Guard "cellular firewall," a $900 device that jams cellular calls. My pal Roger Rodriguez, a gentle soul who works in TIME magazine's tech department, actually ordered one. "I wanted to try it out," he explained. He had a look in his eye that I recognized...
Although it was not my policy to answer fan mail, this policy had never been tested, so I reversed it and wrote Goulet, asking him to be my celebrity pen pal. "I really don't need a pen pal!" he wrote on the back of my first Goulet Christmas card, in which I was introduced, twice, to a pleasantly revealing picture of his wife Vera. "What I need is a buddy! Will you be my buddy???" Underneath, he drew an angry alien. I decided it was best to call. After I listened to some Goulet tunes while on hold, Goulet...