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While yesterday's long-awaited end to the campaign gave Bush the task of assembling an administration in record time, it left Gore to ponder his future...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gore Concedes, Bush Vows Unity | 12/14/2000 | See Source »

...years later I am asking my long-suffering parents to bail me out in my failing attempt to purchase a pedal steel on layaway, which I imprudently committed to at the beginning of the year that, by mutual consent with my father, I took off from college to ponder the relative merits of working in a piss factory and attending an Ivy League school. They oblige on a loan, and I tackle the beast. But my first dalliance is too much, too soon: The complexity of the instrument is more than I can handle, and I eventually abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing the Mettle of a Pedal Steeler | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...magnificent ravioli. Remembering the succulent aroma of her kitchen as you fill a hefty bowl with penne and pesto, it occurs to you that there is a reason Taco Bell and the Olive Garden have not merged. You are stuck with two entrees, but your stomach cannot even ponder pesto beef let alone the prospect of purchasing yet another pair of pants. As a result, you end up throwing out a plate of Mexican perfection. This can be avoided in three ways. First, you could read the menu as you walk in rather than desperately searching for that girl...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: The Wasteland | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...question to ponder over the post-World Series winter: How was it that Joe DiMaggio--a high school dropout whose favorite reading material was Superman comics, a man who was a lousy father, an unfaithful husband and a wife beater, a guy who was reluctant to enlist in World War II, someone who never did a meaningful day's work in the last 47 years of his life, who was monumentally vain and cheap and mistrustful--became a national hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Say It Ain't So, Joe | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...hand on the wheel and the other around a beer. He described the sex life of his bulls in intricate, ribald detail. He also, by his own account, spent time in the oak grove where his ancestors were buried. He would gaze down at the Pedernales River and ponder those things a rancher and a President must ponder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Couple of Texas Ranchers | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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