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...utterly secret, the Vice President perfectly discreet. He's Bush's personal CIA, with secure lines into corporate boardrooms, foreign governments, both houses of Congress and sleeper cells in every branch of government. When he went to visit senior British officials--who know something about reticence--they were struck by his demeanor. "There's no charisma," one of them observes. "But that's not what he's there for, which is intelligence, wisdom." In their first meeting, just before Bush took office, the official met with Cheney in Washington. "He just didn't say anything; so I kept talking...
...terrorists that struck our country in 2002 weren't recruits from international cells but the regular crazy homegrown kind: a sniper spending time with a kid who calls himself his stepson in the ickiest father-son bonding since Bill Wyman's son became his dad's ex-stepfather, and a college kid who was planting mailbox bombs in order to make a happy face on the map. A happy face? What year was that kid living in? We call them emoticons...
...Rose was accused of betting on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. An investigation produced strong evidence that he had done so, but Rose steadfastly refused to admit it. Instead, he copped to betting on other sports and accepted his banishment for life. That "for life" part has struck some baseball fans as excessive, and sentiment for giving Rose a break has been growing. People familiar with the negotiations say Rose would have to show contrition and admit he bet on baseball before he could get the ban lifted. But getting him to do that could be harder than...
Only a handful of these devices are on sale right now. As usual for first-generation gadgets, the balance between cool features and easy operation has not quite been struck. But at least the prices are right. You can get a Sony Ericsson T-300 phone with camera attachment from TMobile for a mere $150; buy it with the rebate on Amazon.com and you could actually end up $50 in the black. That, of course, will quickly be eaten up by your monthly bills. (It costs $10 to send 10 megabytes of data--that's a little more than...
...appropriate to this year: Attacking Iraq? Jimmy Carter getting a peace prize? Oil tanker spills? Axis of evil? Airline bankruptcies? Ozzy Osbourne? It's as if CNN was replaced by CNNClassic. In fact, I'm pretty sure they're rerunning old infrared shots of Baghdad. The terrorists that struck the U.S. in 2002 weren't recruits from international sleeper cells but the regular crazy homegrown kind: a sniper spending time with a kid who calls himself his stepson in the ickiest father-son bonding since Bill Wyman's son nearly became his dad's stepfather-in-law, and a college...