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Yasser Arafat is sitting in his office, at the head of a boardroom table that has been set with a fraying yellow tablecloth and dime-store English china. Around him are a dozen officials and cronies, in suits and ties or military fatigues, who are joining his nightly communal meal. Various peace awards are scattered on shelves in Arafat's inner sanctum, looking more like dust collectors than trophies. On the wall are framed pictures of Palestinians who have died fighting and a satellite map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...trains do, the City of New Orleans slipped with cat-like stealth out of Union Station and glided past Chicago's night skyline. Barely under way, we were summoned to the dining car and ensconced in a cushy booth with white linen tablecloth and fresh flowers opposite Gloria and Gary Pothast, a couple from Duluth, Minn. Stephan, between bantering and chuckling, confided that his favorite on the menu was the blackened catfish (prepared fresh in the galley below, unlike the reheated frozen food we had eaten on the Lake Shore Limited). While not up to the best of New Orleans...
...Ward made the nine-minute "comedy" Sunday's Game, in which five old ladies gather around a bridge table and gab about their infirmities while passing around a gun in a game of Russian roulette that gets funnier and funnier as the blood stains more and more of the tablecloth. Last month they got a TV development deal from Fox. This is what happens when you people refuse to watch that half-hour version of Ally McBeal...
...girls the band encounters most often are the teens who follow them everywhere. "They know our schedule better than we do," says Chasez. "We've had people hide under the tablecloth of room-service tables," says Joey Fatone, 23. "This family went on a pilgrimage to my house and left me all these pictures of Bass shoes," says Bass. "I think they're psycho." 'N Sync mania is even more intense outside the U.S. "We think Europe has the next Olympic gold medalists, because they will chase our bus for one or two miles," explains Timberlake. And the band...
...backlash is brewing. The machines that gamers brought back from Japan failed to wow the influential hobbyist magazines, largely because the games that came with them--titles like Ridge Racer V and Street Fighter Ex3--have not improved as exponentially as the graphics. "It's like a prettier tablecloth, but the food's just the same," sighs Tom Rosso, editor of games magazine Next Generation...