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...Here in Washington, many interns commiserate with Peter, the protagonist of Office Space, because they also perform seemingly meaningless and repetitive clerical tasks on Capitol Hill, in the White House, or for some federal agency. Admittedly, it’s easy to find some common ground with the Office Space characters. Just about everyone has “a case of the Mondays” (and wants to beat the crap out of those who use said phrase). Just about everyone has to put up with a Bill Lumbergh-like boss, who incessantly sends memos about asinine things like...
...Vegas residents Jane and Peter Gillespie pocketed $1,000 for reducing their lawn by more than half, to 2,000 sq. ft., and are looking forward to decreased water bills. But both say they would have relandscaped for aesthetic reasons even without the financial incentive. Though they left some patches of grass, today they look out on a landscape of desert flowers and plants. The onset of summer may have other gardeners pouncing on brown areas with water and fertilizer, but the Gillespies' garden requires little additional sustenance. Since Las Vegas launched its water-conservation program in 1998, 3 million...
...role of Tobey Maguire's love interest in Sony's upcoming big-budget, highly anticipated Spider-Man. Despite reports that she is also Maguire's leading lady offscreen, both say they are just friends. And she recently finished starring as William Randolph Hearst's mistress, Marion Davies, in director Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow, a fact-based, murder-on-a-yacht film set for release this fall. "I play someone who's 27, so hopefully they'll see I can do other roles," says Dunst. "I'm just on that edge." Despite the growing pains, Dunst is maturing...
When the Internet bubble was in full swing, legends Peter Lynch (who can't work a PC) and Warren Buffett (who won't touch a PC stock) took a fair amount of grief for their technophobic ways. To their credit, they raised awareness of the risks building throughout the stock market--and in tech land in particular. Yet I thought they were wrong to warn individual investors consistently off tech stocks entirely, and I said so in a November 1999 column...
...Overseers replace outgoing Overseers John C. Baldwin ’71, Peter C. B. Bynoe ’72, Jack R. Harrison ’55, Lisa Henson ’82 and outgoing Board President Sharon E. Gagnon...