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...model at the hands of the free-to-the-masses World Wide Web. But now that AOL has matched its Web rivals on price, the training wheels have come off. And AOL is not only still pedaling, but--its recent mishaps notwithstanding--it also currently runs the most lucrative toll booth on the information highway...
...hour of the film. Besides the stunning special effects that the director calls upon to underscore the urgency of this concluding sequence, Lucas masterfully builds up the suspense to a shattering pitch as one rebel craft after another falls prey to the marauding pilots of the imperial forces. The toll of casualties among the rebels keeps adding up until one lone plane remains; naturally, it is manned by Luke Skywalker (Hamill), the naive twenty-year-old enraptured by Princess Leia's beauty who seeks to avenge the death of his father during the space age totalitarians' overthrow of the republic...
...William Van Alstyne says a ruling for Clinton would be "monarchy on the installment plan." Jones' lawyers contend that her case is not about dollars--she has said she would give any damages money left after she paid her attorneys to charity--but reputation. "It's had an emotional toll on her that people are calling her a bimbo, trailer-park trash, a gold digger," says Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, who argues she should not have to wait until 2001 to begin clearing her name. He also contends that the burden on Clinton of proceeding with the lawsuit has been...
...feel it only fair, though, to point out to my wife that many people may underestimate the difficulty of writing verse that must include the names of whichever politician a fickle electorate happens to thrust forward. It takes a toll on a poet to go to his desk every day in the full knowledge that he'll never find a rhyme for Moynihan...
...break from our sight-seeing and relative-visiting to make the two hour jaunt up the California coast to lovely Anaheim for a day at Disneyland: the world capitol of all that is good, clean and fun. Jewish as we are, there would be no spiritual toll for using the holiday's all-consuming character to our benefit; there would be no religious conflict in taking advantage of the empty roads and short lines for the Disney attractions. Equally important, the trip would provide us Something To Do on a day when most everything eager tourists might visit is closed...