Word: retreater
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...politicians since the last cold war summit was almost derailed by a 14-year-old boy. Just two days before John McCain and George W. Bush were scheduled to make official their detente, the Texas Governor placed an ice-breaking phone call to the Arizona Senator's mountain retreat. He reached Jack McCain. Dad's outside, said the teenager. Could the Republican nominee call back later? No big deal. Back to Game Boy. Jack promptly forgot about the call and never told his father. "I wanted to throttle him," McCain laughs now. Three hours later, Bush called again and reached...
...whether it intentionally destroyed e-mail messages, spokesman Joe Lockhart claimed it had escaped unscathed. President Clinton, in any case, wouldn't have noticed anything. Unlike his cybernaut Vice President, Al Gore, whose campaign was largely unaffected, Clinton rarely reads his e-mail. Still, before rushing off to a retreat in Pennsylvania with Senate Democrats, he vowed to reporters to keep working to protect the nation's growing dependence on electronic interconnectivity from "disruptive forces." George Bush was less fortunate. At his Dallas headquarters, external e-mail servers were shut down for more than a day, forcing aides to work...
...Capitalism is clearly triumphant, but it lacks a moral compass. Government is increasingly in a retreat, but it has an indispensable, even if changing, role to play," Jackson said...
Brown catcher Greg Metzger then fired down to second. A good throw would have surely had Lentz, who had started to retreat to first upon realizing that Carter had not swung at the pitch...
...Claridge and do lunch at the Swan, on the hotel's third floor. There are no distractions behind the shoji screen, just the soothing rhythm of a waterfall. There's no food either. But hey, who ever said lunch had to be about food? The Swan is a massage retreat at this quiet downtown establishment, and like the guest rooms and cozy lobby, it's part of what gives the Claridge the je ne sais quoi that manager Michael Wathen calls "a point of view." The point, he says, is to take a load off, take the edge off business...