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...real judicial drama was right in front of us. It was a perfect ending to Postelection 2000, in which a creaky 18th century legal-political process ran smack against the more!-faster!-now! demands of 21st century media. Fast news, like fast food, requires prep work, and modern journalists have grown accustomed to pre-leaked and -summarized stories, the better to plan coverage and scare up file video. But like the DMV, the Supreme Court doesn't consider lack of patience on your part an emergency on its part. Without explanation, it delivered to the media a President wrapped...
...first stood out for his voice. As a boy, Thomas Penfield Jackson won a choir scholarship to St. Albans prep school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington Mayor Marion Barry's) but was little known until he became Bill Gates' bete noire. The judge in the Microsoft antitrust trial could be gruff ("You are not planning to totally rearrange my room, are you?" he asked our photographer) but was known as open-minded and moderate. His thunderbolt rulings...
Then there?s Texas. Unlike the Massachusetts-Connecticut-Maine Ivy League preppiness of George Sr., Dubya grew up in the Texan oil town that his father chose as a profitable base in the ?50s and ?60s. Except for his sojourns at Yale and northeastern prep schools, the George W. taste is drawn from unapologetic Texan sensibilities. There?s a certain swagger. Think Connecticut meets ?Dallas? meets ?Dynasty? and you?ll have a clue what to expect...
...chess world it's flattering to be known as Supernerd, and that is what they call the man who ended fellow Russian and former mentor Garry Kasparov's 15-year reign as world champ. Not a sport, you say? Kramnik, 25, quit smoking and dropped 20 lbs. to prep for the match...
...only reason that works, in the Watson world view, is naked self-interest. He may be right. There's certainly no dust on the keyboards at John O'Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior, signed up for the program just a few weeks earlier and is now aiming for UCLA. "I'm doing this for my future," she says...