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...White House had been a struggle to raise. Funds ran out, materials and workmen ran thin. Scottish stone carvers had to be enticed to America. A whorehouse sprang up among the construction shacks, and federal commissioners wanted it torn down, only to drop the complaint when carpenters protested. President Washington made sure the White House was built, bolstering his determination with inspections of the site...
...years to gain office despite losing the popular vote. All his talk about gliding into Washington on the wings of a popular mandate--"a messenger of the people," as he once said--will be forgotten. If the Florida recount swings to Gore, he will have earned whisper-thin popular and electoral victories and the undying suspicion of millions of Bush supporters--people who absorbed the inaccurate Tuesday-night news reports that Bush had won and now might conclude that Gore stole the election. And if a judge ends up deciding the outcome--something without precedent in American history--it could...
...While all this may sound good - by 1998 Wu-Tang, Inc., was grossing more than $25 million a year - RZA, Divine and Oli Grant, the band's corporate brain trust, feel the group has spread itself too thin. "A few years ago, I told my brothers [fellow Clan members] that the W is gonna be like the Mickey Mouse ears," says RZA. For brands trying to be cool, though, ubiquity can be a bad thing - just ask Gucci. The W began showing up on too many things, while the band hardly showed up at all. It got to a point...
...this perception of breast cancer that all people do when you don't know about it: bald, sick, dying, thin, frail," Delaney-Smith said. "I had that picture of that's what was going to happen...
...single huge slab of glass but from 36 smaller sheets that would, under a computer's control, act as one. And in Europe, design teams came up with yet another idea, the exact opposite of Angel's: instead of making the mirror hollow to save weight, let it be thin--about 8 in. thick for an 8-m mirror, in contrast to the 5-m Hale's 26 in.--and counteract the resulting floppiness with computer-controlled supports that continually readjust its shape...