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...kindling-dry timber. Besides forcing thousands to evacuate, the flames brought down power lines and melted cars and trucks. Last week 6 million acres of public land were closed to civilians by order of the Governor, and each day new crews of fire fighters arrive, to be housed in tent cities that look like refugee camps...
...Bear's Lair" was Jerry Berman's campaign slogan when he ran for student-body vice president at Berkeley in 1962. "I wanted the radicals," he recalls, "but I was trying to get the fraternity vote too." Berman lost that race, but he has used his big-tent style to become a major political operator as head of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based advocacy group. As a proponent of free speech and privacy on the Net, Berman helped overturn the Communications Decency Act of 1996, Congress's attempt to outlaw pornography on the Internet. Now Berman...
...agenda. A "uniter, not a divider," he crows over his warm working relationships with Democrats in the Texas legislature. He keeps his distance from congressional Republicans because they're all so nasty and partisan up there in Washington, and he vows to bring civility to the place. His Big Tent will be the biggest ever. Why should a little disagreement over abortion make us all tense and angry with one another? The ideology-lite candidate, Bush was able to change from compassionate conservative to Bob Jones conservative and back again inside six weeks with near impunity, while Al Gore...
What finally gave it away? Was it the constant public displays of affection at awards shows and movie premieres? The gleaming diamond ring she has been sporting since last fall? Or maybe the giant tent erected on a Malibu estate and the stream of florists and caterers who had been ferrying in their goods all week? Whatever the case, JENNIFER ANISTON, 31, and BRAD PITT, 36, confirmed that they would indeed wed this past weekend, before 200 of their closest pals. Pitt's ex-fiance Gwyneth Paltrow was not expected to be in attendance despite reportedly receiving an invitation...
...back in the tent now. Clicking through the wires...