Word: sluggish
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Unfortunately, the DISHPlayer still relies on a telephone line--and a sluggish 56K modem--for the WebTV component. But soon users will be able to get selected, enhanced Web pages (with audio clips, say) beamed down from the satellite at way-faster-than-modem speeds...
...second spirit from the past was brought back by the Democrats themselves. Vice President Al Gore, seeking to bring order and a sense of direction to his sluggish campaign, named former congressman Tony Coelho, a once formidable Democratic strategist and fund-raiser, to be its general chairman. "Coelho is the person who brought the Democratic party into the modern era of world-class fund-raising by hitting powerful business interests," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "The appointment is surprising because it?s a double-edged sword" that could be used by Gore?s opponents. While Coelho?s modern...
...corpse was found in his apartment. Having fled the U.S. for Ireland, Einhorn was finally tried in absentia and found guilty of murder. (He's currently in France, where he is appealing extradition.) Out of this intricate, unsettling story has come a flat, ponderous miniseries. The pace is maddeningly sluggish, and Kevin Anderson generates too little of the charisma that the real Einhorn must have possessed...
DIED. ELIZABETH ("LIZ") TILBERIS, 51, editor of Harper's Bazaar; of ovarian cancer; in New York City. After rising from intern to editor in chief of British Vogue, the Manchester-born Tilberis took the helm at Hearst's Harper's Bazaar in 1992. She quickly turned the sluggish magazine into an important arbiter of style. Known for her grace and decency in a famously cutthroat business, Tilberis campaigned for cancer awareness in the pages of Bazaar and in a 1998 memoir, No Time...
...Crimson's only rally of an otherwise sluggish day started with 6:49 left in the third, as it closed from 5-1 to 5-4. Baly converted on an extra-man opportunity with a one-hopper from just inside the line for his eighth goal of the season. He trails just Buttles and Sprong for the team lead in goals...