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...that's not how the meeting went, according to the Washington Post's John Harris. Clinton, still chafing over being kept on the sidelines, rejected any responsibility for Gore's loss. Gore, whose body had returned to the West Wing but whose psyche was still counting chads in Palm Beach, tried to explain that keeping Clinton under wraps was a rational response to polls showing swing voters were still mad as hell over the Year of Monica. Clinton, who sees that period as his Defense of the Constitution, shot back that had Gore embraced him and the Administration's record...
...devices that print baggage-claim tags for domestic flights. A few carriers allow passengers to do the check-in ritual at home from a PC. British Airways customers in the U.K. can now pick their seat via a wap phone. And around the world, immigration departments are experimenting with palm recognition scanners to hasten the ordeal for frequent travelers...
...boulevards are wide, and lined with palm trees and shrubs. But they overlook a big, ugly sandy patch dominated by a concrete structure overlooking the "Square of Martyrs." It had been intended as a fountain cascading the waters of Ghaddafi's unfinished "Great Man-Made River Project"; instead it serves as a dusty soccer pitch for young boys who play late into the night...
...pattern in the ageless canopy of stars, we have hungered to know the secrets of time yet to come. Throughout history seers have claimed to divine the future by the alignments of heavenly bodies, by the casting of bones, by the whorls and lines and patterns of the human palm, by dregs of leaves in the bottom of a teacup, by shadows in a crystal ball and movements on a Ouija board...
...Half needs to emulate eBay further by selling more high-priced items. Kopelman's plan is to move into consumer electronics. That could be a hard sell, however, because consumers who buy used books over the Internet may not be as willing to take a chance on a used Palm Pilot...