Word: warp
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This is a risk Charles--or the country--may not wish to take. Outsiders may regard the monarchy as a gilded anachronism, the mere guardian of a glorified theme park offering more pomp than circumstance. But that ignores the monarchy's role as part of the warp and woof of the fabric of British life and institutions. Opinion polls may show that the monarchy's popularity waxes and wanes, but there is no evidence that the country has turned decisively against its Queen or her heir...
...Drudge's publishing empire is the living room of his Hollywood apartment.) But many of the Net's would-be Woodwards and Bernsteins are journalistic novices and wouldn't think, say, to ask court or police sources to confirm a rumor. Character assassination, like everything else online, happens at warp speed, which is why some say there's no way to correct damage to one's reputation--or protect one's privacy...
...know what kind of Stepford time warp Ferguson lives in, but here in Vermont, the guy who services our office computer network drives a minivan; so does the gentleman who maintains the brochure racks in my office, and my caterer and contract furniture supplier. Not a housewife among them. Minivans are practical vehicles that can haul other things besides runny-nosed kids, flea-bitten dogs and henpecked husbands. Sport-utes can't match them for practicality and cargo or passenger space, the price is right and, frankly, a minivan will never be mistaken for the extension of macho man that...
...when many of his Boston Brahmin contemporaries are easing into retirement, 66-year-old Edward Crosby (Ned) Johnson 3rd, chairman of Fidelity Investments, the largest manager of mutual funds in the world, continues to move at warp speed. The year 1997 is the one in which he intends to rechannel the huge savings pools in Asia and Europe through the global stock market, duplicating overseas the mutual-fund juggernaut he has created in the U.S. His primary target: the $9 trillion of accumulated savings in Japan, where individual investors still squirrel away much of their earnings in savings accounts that...
...Awards in the ratings. Not that Westminster doesn't have its stars. Bill Cosby owns a highly regarded lakeland terrier, Greg Louganis entered a Rhodesian Ridgeback and Green Bay quarterback Brett Favre's cousin, C.J. Favre, showed a puli and a Kerry blue. In general, there is an appealing warp to the woof at Westminster: Where else can you find society matrons whooping it up with 4-H Clubbers, or vendors bellowing "Champagne here"? A vendor named Jerry hawks the catalog by calling out "Get your Bow-Wow Bible, your Doggy Diary, your Beagle Bugle, your Tibetan Terrier Torah, your...