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...sleepy sensuality of the young Robert Mitchum - a narcoleptic dreamboat quality that suggests a sleek predator roused from slumber by a poke through his cage. So when Benicio Del Toro got a call around noon Los Angeles time a few weeks ago to be told that he'd won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Supporting Actor prize for his performance as a Mexican narc in "Traffic," the 33-year-old emitted something like a growl. The new lion of Hollywood is a late sleeper and, he says, "I'm not a happy camper when I get woken...
...take Miami-Dade (and any other county he wants) all the way back to the Supreme Court and poke the Florida legislature in the chest. And really catch hell from congressional Democrats who already have the votes to shut Bush down - they'd love Gore to take one for the 2002 team...
Nobel laureate James Watson, who discovered the double-helix structure of DNA and poke at the conference's opening yesterday, said he was "moved by Reno's human qualities and regard for democracy." He added that he had never heard the attorney general speak before...
...fairness of selective recounts to other, machine-counted voters back to the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta, and higher if they have to. And they'll make the case - to the people in the next five days, to the courts afterward - that a voter without sufficient voting "intent" to poke a hole, any hole at all, in a piece of cardboard didn't intend to poke a hole...
Gore, meanwhile, was starting to poke holes in his own ship. In the third week of September, reporters began to challenge him on some of the anecdotes he related in his speeches, including whether the prescription drug Lodine did cost less for his dog than for his mother-in-law. Gore's sudden drift may not have been entirely coincidental. Republican message sculptor Ed Gillespie arrived in Austin to step up the attacks on the Vice President. Constantly outgunned by Gore's better tactical operation, Bush's team started working on what it called "stink bombs," or what later became...