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...phone congratulations to him backstage, "but somebody kept hanging up on me," Gore said. "It was, 'Sure you're Al Gore'--click." Then he moved on, grabbing a cocktail napkin to diagram a new system for making Internet connections via satellite. Through it all, he never let anything slip or allowed the conversation to turn back to the job. When he praised a pbs documentary on Harry Truman, a reporter observed that as Vice President, Truman rarely saw F.D.R. Gore changed the subject. And when the other correspondent asked him about the state of Clinton's second term, he rolled...
...while Charney suggested that Harvard may be trying to put together a Knafel Center plan to "slip underneath the radar," Mary Power, Harvard's director of community relations said that, like other community members, the University is concerned with the city's development patterns...
...Feaster and her teammates were not going to let this game slip away as last year's matchup against Loyola did. With the Greyhound's up 23-16, Feaster hit two free throws to start an 11-0 run for the Crimson...
...where hordes have waited for the paint to dry on his festively colored works. He has sold all 2,000 paintings he brought with him from his studio in Brooklyn, plus several hundred new ones. They've been carted away by senior citizens, children, homemakers and business people, who slip folded bills into an honor box. Keene, who works 12 hours a day to meet the demand, charges $1 to $5 per painting...
...note to include these items in my accounts, then turn off toward the bay, which is winter blue already. The powerboats have disappeared. The cormorants swarm in a black mass near the mouth of a creek, their snake heads craning for invisible fish. I watch for a while, slip in a tape of k.d. lang and add these things to my list as well...