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...smell of blue cigar smoke wafted through the air. He wore a black Atlanta Falcons jacket, a light straw hat, and clenched the stub of said cigar in his teeth. A curious crowd of locals, tourists and onlookers gathered round the well-worn chess board in silence. Hands moved lighting-fast to place pieces and then tap down the time clock...
...Which meant plenty of outings for that well-worn phrase, "I'm going back to work for the American people." Clinton refused to get "mired in the details" of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but admitted that the people "know what happened" and he still had to "atone for what I did." But what of Congress, what of the release of his videotaped testimony, what of impeachment? "It's outside my authority," shrugged the President. Havel, meanwhile, showed his host an even better way to answer scandal questions. Asked if Clinton's misdeeds had had any effect...
...former, according to a spokesman, would be an "unfair and misguided imposition on Mr. Gates's time." On the latter, Microsoft stuck to its well-worn Coke analogy; the source code, it said, was the "software equivalent to the formula for Coca-Cola." Not only that, handing it over would "reveal plans for future operating systems." That's why they want the government experts examining it to agree not to work for Redmond's rivals in the next few years. No, says the government, that would bankrupt them...
...year-old grandson Jack, who lives close by, Heston's macho stance melts, and he turns positively gaga. "To me, he's king of the world," says the actor, surveying a once elegant patio, now taken up by a sandbox, a miniature basketball court and well-worn tricycles. The actor published a book last year, To Be a Man: Letters to My Grandson. But even in that sentimental volume, Heston can't resist a few pot shots: "Somewhere in the busy pipeline of public funding is sure to be a demand from a disabled lesbian on welfare that the Metropolitan...
Maria Lammers looked stunned when she heard the news from this reporter. Wiping her hands on her well-worn cook's apron, the bespectacled owner of the 25-year-old Gallagher's farm market and bakery could barely contain her excitement: "That's wonderful! That's great!" Fire up your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which...