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...song predicting nuclear armageddon or a really good party--depending on how you read it--on New Year's Eve, 1999. It was 1993 when Conan O'Brien started his "In the Year 2000" segment ("In the year 2000 Roger Ebert will be so overweight and out of shape, he will no longer be able to lift either thumb."). Everyone was getting all hot and bothered. Even castrated people were getting so excited that, by 1997, a whole group of them in California decided they couldn't wait any longer and left our soon-to-explode planet early...
...Bush Challenge: While maintaining the U.S. commitment to help the parties find ways of coexisting, the Bush administration may be inclined to be a more distant participant in the peace process, emphasizing the need to maintain stability. The new administration may remember that the Oslo Accord took shape during the last Bush administration, with very little direct involvement by the U.S. And, of course, wider U.S. interests in the region from oil prices to Iraq policy require that Washington do some work in rebuilding relations with moderate Arab regimes. Which may mean the Bush campaign promise to move...
Pittman has emerged as the battlefield commander, with what many view as an insurmountable goal: to shape Time Warner's disparate, shark-infested corporate divisions and AOL's single-minded Internet entrepreneurs into a lean, mean conquering force. Although Levin insisted that the new headquarters be in New York, the cost was the defenestration of much of Time Warner's corporate staff. Many of the top executive roles have gone to AOL. Middle managers from the two companies have clashed over, among other things, ad-sales strategies and Time Warner's compensation structure. "A lot of [AOL executives] came...
...Heck, they might break off a piece of that surplus of ours and divvy it up 50 ways, and get all the precincts in all the counties in all the states a few machines each. Enough to keep the line moving. And get them the ship-shape maintenance plan, and have technicians on hand. Nothing's too good for our democracy...
...MARIA SCHNEIDER Allegresse (Enja). Schneider's big band paints musical landscapes full of glowing pastel harmonies and sharp-angled rhythms. Listen to her sweepingly ambitious compositions, and hear the next wave in jazz taking shape before your very ears...