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...bedrooms with big contributors. Then again there is the episode in which a deputy chief of staff gingerly points out that Clinton's many fund-raising coffees may make it necessary to temporarily cut short those troublesome government duties like his daily briefings by advisers. All the same, for sheer madcap ingenuity, nothing beats the unsigned memo suggesting ways to reach "our very aggressive goal of $40 million." The ways? Offer donors seats on Air Force One and Two. Put them at the table at presidential dinners. Get them into that maximum lunchroom, the White House mess. Never...
...Smaller games like 'Tetris' are challenging and a lot more addictive in the long run," Condit says, nothing that the sheer number of "Tetris" clone games are evidence of the game's staying power and irresistible charm...
...beyond the sheer addictiveness of "Jewelbox" or even "Doom", wherein lies the key to video game success? Where any Vegas showgirl would tell you: looking pretty, taking it easy and letting everybody think they're winning...
Even though the circle of footprints in the talc around the candle may evoke visions of eerie nocturnal rituals, the sheer physical pleasure of padding over the silky tracks induces giggles rather than fear. As we leave our traces around the room, Meireles appeals to all of our senses but taste. Yet it is somehow impossible to find an underlying grammar to order our perceptions. Although his materials seem related to combustion (the talc could double as gunpowder or ash), they are somehow irreconcilable. Candles don't smell like gas and neither they nor pure gas fires produce ash. Where...
...resonate in a nation torn by economic crisis. In recent weeks, the U.S. has made good on similar offers of aid, most notably by pledging $10 million in relief after Nort h Korea made an emergency plea to the World Food Program. Incentives aside, some analysts say the sheer number of dilemmas faced by North Korea -- epitomized by the defection of high-ranking official Hwang Jang Yop -- may have it teetering on the edg e of collapse, and that, more than any promise of aid, is what could bring its leaders to the bargaining table. But North Korea remains difficult...