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...Steven Tiller celebrated his recently “dominated” EC-10 final by slipping 4 shots of Gordon’s vodka into his chocolate soy milk at Annenburg. Ripped and Roarin’, Tiller boasted that he had a) kicked “booty-tang” on the test, and b) was going to send an e-mail to everyone’s mom at the table...
...large batteries arranged along the keel, below the flooring of the cockpit - proceeds by stealth. Leaving the marina at Norrie Point, we picked up a few weeds that wrapped themselves around the propeller and threw the rotation of the shaft off true, causing a slight vibration in the tiller. Otherwise, the boat was frictionless and silent - a dreamlike passage. A few sailboats were out, luffing around a course. Now and then, a powerboat would approach us on a snarling Doppler, would rooster noisily past, and recede...
...part of business is figuring out who's going to be the boss, which explains why he quit the almost-top job at TerraLycos. "I was hoping I wouldn't have to," concedes Davis. "But we had more than one hand on the tiller, and that's an impossible way to steer a company." The other hand belongs to Joaquim Agut, TerraLycos' CEO, who has a bigger claim to the job, since his company bought Davis...
...Secretary of State Colin Powell: Long-term winner A sure hand on the tiller from the get-go, Powell choreographed a diplomatic solution in which the U.S. realized its objectives while conceding little of substance. He proved that determined diplomacy could work where tough talk and posturing was bound to fail, and that will cement his claims as the Great Helmsman of Bush administration foreign policy, which had recently been under fire from Washington's hawks...
...breaks to the highest bidder, rides the prosperity into the ground, whooping like Slim Pickens; Gore, horrified at the thought of making money from human and environmental suffering, chokes the economy with regulation - and there's still likely to be the need for an adroit hand at the economic tiller. And that may be a different choice altogether...