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...Powell's nonresponse, which robs his pro-choice stance of an important real-world consequence, reveals caution rather than ignorance--and a finely honed political instinct as well. To a favorite Powell maxim, "Don't make a decision until you have to," one should probably add, "And don't rub it in unless you must...
...predecessor. He owns a trim little house (complete with worrisome mortgage), yearns for the settled life and narrates his adventures in a style that avoids the lush metaphors Chandler favored. He even has a sidekick, Mouse (Don Cheadle), a genial psychopath in a bowler hat, comically eager to rub out anyone who crosses his path, whether he deserves it or not. He's a scene stealer, but so is everyone else Easy encounters: the nervously sexyBeals, a brutal-funny fixer with ambiguous loyalties (Tom Sizemore), an epicene politician (Maury Chaykin). But Washington, like the character he plays, knows...
...result: a brand-new look, complete with photos and graphics, that invites readers to dig even deeper into the week's news, exchange opinions with editors and other readers, search through the archives or rub virtual shoulders with newsmakers. "Stories that are static on a printed page are active--and interactive--on a computer," says online manager Waits May, who conceived of the new approach and oversaw its execution. "There are so many paths to follow, we needed a new navigation system that was as clear and intuitive as possible...
...rub here is that seeing the new digs makes visitors think of money, and talking about money, as we have seen, makes Crichton sore. In fact, he is tight with a buck and says so. The little software company he formed in the early '80s came about because he saw movie man-hours being squandered on tasks computers could dispatch in minutes. (One more entry for the give-us-a-break file: he won an Academy Award for technical achievement for this assistance to studio accountants.) He wonders crankily about society's fierce curiosity about how much money people make...
...themselves. With a frenzy usually reserved for chasing females, the males link up end-to-end in big circles or in long, winding rows that look like winged conga lines. As the buzz of the characteristic fruit fly "love song" fills the air, the males repeatedly lurch forward and rub genitals with the next ones in line...