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Gore campaign manager William Daley, appearing at a rally of 75 Democratic Party lawyers, chanting and waving gloves in the air, calls President-quasi-elect Bush a "banana Republican." He vows to charter "a fleet of 747s" and fly the entire membership of the Trial Lawyers Association to Tallahassee...
President-quasi-elect Bush announces that in the spirit of unity government, he will nominate Al Gore to be his Transportation Secretary...
...Rather could only grin sheepishly and attempt to shore up the remainder of the journalistic integrity and credibility left in his haggard body. As the hours wore him down, he eventually experienced what could only be described as a full-blown psychotic episode. Mounting pressure forced Dan into cryptic quasi-stream-of-consciousness spewings like "...we won't know until all the marbles and chalk are on the table." His coverage past 2 a.m. was beyond eerie, as a clearly unhinged man attempted to fill airtime with histrionic Shatnerian pauses and complex explanations of simple arithmetic. When Dan finally...
...amazingly fun to read. Not only are they fun, but they can be substantive and insightful as well. This is, I suppose, to be expected of Wolfe. He has a style that gives as much force to his argument as any amount of evidence does, drawing wonderful quasi-historical lessons and parallels, especially in his tale of Silicon Valley-who would have seen any connection between Grinnell, Iowa and the rise of an American legend? What you read here (or in any book review) does his skill absolutely no justice, because it is only as you actually read the stuff...
...sense, its artistic director. The role wasn't a complete sinecure: the ruling warlord, Tokugawa Ieyasu, ordered the seppuku, or ritual suicide, of one of Koetsu's circle, the tea master Furuta Oribe, for some real or imagined disloyalty. But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village...