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...simply irrelevant. Yet few are celebrating this milestone; we've already had one millennium celebration in the last 12 months, and no amount of persuasion will convince the populace that the calendar started in the Year 1, not the Year 0. Besides, television executives have already filled their quota of network specials on the Vikings or King Ethelred the Unready...
...both men; at a Sunday rally in Dearborn, Mich., Gore twice called Bruce Hornsby, the evening's entertainment, Rogers Hornsby, who as we all know was in fact the Rajah, the fabulous (and deceased) second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals during the '20s. Meanwhile Bush provided his usual quota of flubs, calling the inheritance tax the "death penalty" (he was searching for "death tax"). Even after all that, both candidates are widely expected to summon the energy to vote today...
...actually a thoughtful political drama starring Joan Allen in business suits and Gary Oldman in a Mike Brady perm. You may want to stage a walkout yourself, and that's just what I did at Fred Segal, vowing not to return until the establishment had shed its ridiculous quota policies...
...closely linked to the ambition for ever-increasing prosperity. And another part of the answer is that we are embarrassed to admit that we need to sleep. If others can apparently manage with fewer hours of slumber, we feel it is an admission of weakness to claim the quota that our bodies demand...
...commuting time in the three-county area as well as to make fast connections to airports. Meanwhile, the Cessna sales office at once sleepy Leesburg Municipal Airport in Loudoun County has become one of the best-performing sales points in the nation. Last year Mark Peters nearly doubled his quota and sold 40 planes. "There are a lot of prosperous so-called geeks out there who want to fly," says Peters. "The Dulles Toll Road should be called the Yellow Brick Road--and the yellow is gold...