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While most Washington appointment-watchers bite their nails for Rehnquist to step aside for Scalia and O'Connor to skip to Arizona and make way for someone more, well, reliable, George W. Bush is quietly, stealthily writing the future of U.S. monetary policy for the next 14 years by stacking the Federal Reserve board? with bankers...
...simplest, travel is about getting away from it all. Reject the routine. Junk the job, for a week or even just a few hours between meetings. Reinvigorated by variety, so the theory goes, the traveler returns to the dreary regularity of workaday life with a carefree skip and a song...
...Bible? After all, this teen-drinking business is serious. Just because I survived my 12-pack road trips and puke-a-thon proms doesn't mean my daughter will. That scares me. But parenthood in general scares me. Something else scares me too: the idea that if I skip the porch talk, one day, after catching my daughter in her first big spree, I'll have to confront her about lying to me about liquor while knowing inside that I've been lying about...
Moreover, because broadcasters and advertisers hate how PVRs can fast-forward and rewind programs still being broadcast (thereby letting viewers skip the ads), they are trying to rein us in. According to London tech consultancy Datamonitor, the next-generation boxes will permit viewing to be monitored and allow broadcasters to either prevent viewers from fast forwarding ads or offer us rewards for agreeing to watch them...
...wonder Fox wanted to be surrounded by armament. To be fair, Fox has used this scheduling ploy before, with some success - after another sitcom had bombed and left a smoldering crater in the lineup. Again, not exactly a hosanna for your development to say you'll just skip the middleman and pre-cancel a sitcom to be named later in advance...