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Referring to the U.S. government as a "quill pen in the age of WordPerfect," Vice President Al Gore unveiled a plan with more than 800 recommendations on how to restructure it -- and theoretically save $108 billion over the next five years. Gore appeared on Late Show with David Letterman to soft-sell the scheme, at one point ridiculing the arthritic federal bureaucracy by strapping on safety goggles to smash a government-approved ashtray in the officially sanctioned...
...time: late May, With an epic and overweening sense of ceremony, I pen the last word on the last page of the last blue book of the last test of my second-to-last year of college. Life, I sense, is drawing to a close. Adulthood looms. Barely bothering to hand in the exam, I head screaming with glee into my Last Summer, running straight from the Science Center to Newbury Street to kick off three months of self-discipline...
...changing economics force many U.S. PC makers to re-evaluate the market. To compete in the future, say analysts, PC makers must bring unique products to market in order to stand out from the pack. As a result, many companies are placing big bets on such emerging technologies as pen-based computing, hand-held PCs and multimedia. Says John McCarthy, director of technology at Forrester Research: "If you're just a boxmaker, with nothing else to offer, your days may be numbered...
...cooking again? I'm really turning my house into a home...When the heat pours out of the oven and I baste the browning bird with all those good juices, it makes me never want to read another issue of Vanity Fair." Bernhard sounds both snotty and heartfelt; her pen drips in a sarcasm so intense it redeems these cliches, rendering them oddly evocative and always hilarious...
...minimalist plot is centered around Jeremy Acidophilus, a 29 year-old, marking time in a "veal-fattening pen" (a.k.a a tiny cubicle) at a publishing company where he is employed as a filer...