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Pentecostal preaching is mannered. Jakes' eccentric pauses, coy glances at his audience and the occasional odd, Holy Spirit-inspired stutter that sounds like a skipping CD might normally mystify or annoy the nonanointed. And yet, somehow, they do not. Like Brando's mumbling or Michael Jordan's outstretched tongue, they are pendants to an overwhelming gift...
...spending priorities. The Administration has already signaled that it may scale back the next round of G.O.P. tax cuts, which are now unlikely to include a capital-gains reduction. This will infuriate G.O.P. conservatives. Bush officials have also hinted at unspecified spending cuts later this year--something guaranteed to annoy politicians of all stripes. Just last week Bush's 2002 defense request for $328.9 billion came under fire as potentially budget busting. Said an Administration official, referring to the the surplus: "We have to be very careful with this...
...records and, by not playing them, broke them. To get him to play their songs, singers made new versions of their 45s: George Hamilton IV turned "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" (covered, much later, by Marilyn Manson!) to "A Rose and a Candy Bar" so as not to annoy the show's candy sponsors. John Zacherle's horror-novelty song "Dinner With Drac" was toned down for Clark; a record was then issued with the hard and soft versions. Chuck Berry didn't need prompting to insert, in his "Sweet Little Sixteen," the lines "Well, they'll be rockin...
...admitting that he has felt intimidated by the expectations of his storied baseball lineage. His father Bobby was a three-time All-Star; his godfather Willie Mays is a baseball god. Not exactly a relatable problem for most bleacher bums. Bonds can alienate fans with his aloofness and annoy teammates by refusing to share his obviously sharp insights into the game. One teammate in Pittsburgh, where Bonds played his first seven years, famously remarked that he would "rather lose without Barry than win with...
MIGHTY MOUSE The two things that annoy people most about their PC's mouse are the trackball (or "gunk collector") and the cord (too long or too short yet always in the way). The solution? Logitech's Cordless MouseMan Optical ($75), on sale at logitech.com Having traded in the trackball for an optical sensor, this wireless bionic wonder has only one flaw: an insatiable hunger for AA batteries...