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...DUST In his last days in office, George Bush laid a few land mines for Bill Clinton, such as sending troops to Somalia and bombing Iraq only days before Clinton's Inauguration. Returning the favor with a raft of last-minute appointments, pardons and Executive Orders that thumb a nose at George W.'s Administration, Clinton...
...slipped her the URL, she said, "you bum," only she used another word that means much the same thing. We both knew at once that this would be a very, very bad game. You can find it yourself at popcap.com a four-month-old site that offers a raft of free games, no questions asked. The games aren't downloaded to you but streamed as tiny Java applets to your Web browser. They go away when you close your browser. But why would you want...
...enraged. Conservatives are like that, you see. Kind of touchy--unbalanced, really. When a politician we don't like--Al Gore, in this case--goes to court to try, for the first time in history, to overturn the certified result of a presidential election, and then launches a raft of novel and fallacious legal theories to muddy the clear intent of legally passed statutes, and finally enlists the aid of a politically sympathetic team of state supreme court judges to count the votes and count them again until the tally makes him the winner--well, we conservatives just refuse...
While Gore aides arranged clearances with the security folks at the guardhouse, Bon Jovi worked his cell phone, and a short while later appeared none other than Tom Petty, John Popper of Blues Traveler, and a raft of studio musicians. About 45 minutes later, Stevie Wonder showed up for a couple of numbers, one of which was "Higher Ground...
...most important sports performance since Owens', and was therefore in contention as the most important thing to happen in the world last week. You can go further: The most important thing to happen in the world in a given week hadn't happened in Australia since the first Aboriginal raft floated over 60,000 years ago, or since Cook sailed into Botany Bay in 1770. This was a big, big win, and I'll tell you: If NBC went heavy on the Americans and C. J. Hunter, then they lost the plot down here...