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Upon returning from break, I began investigating PDA-type options, including the Apple Newton MessagePad 2000 and the new handled PCs that run a light version of Windows 95 dubbed Windows CE. These WinCE machines cost about $1,000 and run "pocket" versions of popular Microsoft software such as Word and Schedule...
...worried. This time solace came from an unfamiliar source. In the residence, his brother Roger, no stranger to problems of addiction, handed him a silver dollar their grandfather had given their mother. Virginia Kelley carried it throughout her life as a good-luck charm. Clinton slipped it into his pocket as he walked into the House chamber...
...assistant manager of Petco on 119 First St. reported that a man placed a parakeet in his pocket. When the man saw he had been observed, he restored the parakeet to a shelf and left the store...
...politicians are in the pocket of special interests--or at least, we think they are. Polls show that more than half of Americans believe campaign donations influence elected officials "a great deal," while two-thirds think the influence of contributions on elections and government policy is a "major problem." Many journalists agree. According to editorial writers for The New York Times, the U.S. has "a system that makes money more important than the public will." What with "huge open-ended campaign contributions by rich individuals, corporations and labor unions," the concerns of average Americans are pushed aside...
...behind the Oval Office. She is willing to do whatever the leader of the free world would like; he is willing to engage in a bit of, shall we say, stimulation with a woman less than half his age. Heck, he's got the Secret Service in his back pocket. If he can get away with the Gennifer Flowers affair, with refusing to settle with Paula Jones, with keeping his affair with Kathleen Willey out of the public eye, a little fun beneath the desk won't slip...