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Rumsfeld offered Wolfowitz his current post with an invitation to serve as his intellectual alter ego, a senior aide says. Their offices are a short walk apart along the Pentagon's E-Ring. Wolfowitz frequently slips down a back hallway, peers through a peephole into his boss's suite and, if Rumsfeld is alone, walks right in. "He's got great power of concentration," says Wolfowitz, "so you can open the door--it doesn't disturb him--until he pauses, and I ask, 'Can you take a minute?'" They talk half a dozen times a day, on matters small...
...switch now because Irish regulators require it do so by the end of the year. After all the phone talk, an O2 spokesman said the first significant commercial use of 3-G will be as an add-in card that provides wireless Internet to laptops. That had a familiar ring: a week earlier, Vodafone said it is to offer 3-G for laptops in Germany and Italy . But wait - wasn't 3-G all about leaving the computer at home? Isn't that why companies spent €100 billion on licenses? Apparently 3-G means, as Humpty Dumpty advised Alice...
This: in some theaters, the Ring trilogy will be shown back to back to back. What a 9-hr. 17-min. trip--three huge installments, one supreme enthrallment. Ecstasy trumps exhaustion in the reliving of a great human quest, a cinematic triumph. --By Richard Corliss...
Neither Sprint nor Verizon did anything to improve on the chirp itself. You'd think that in the age of the ring tone you could download a new chirp, anything from a cat's meow to a foghorn, but both carriers leave you with a single, annoying alert. Your only alternative is "privacy mode." Every phone tested could vibrate instead of chirp and route sound to your ear instead of a speaker...
...allow her to marry Bertram. Everything goes swimmingly until Bertram makes it clear that he has no interest in his adoptive sister and runs away from court instead of marrying her. He leaves a mocking note, which she takes as a challenge: if she can get an ancestral ring from his finger and become pregnant with his child, he’ll marry...