Word: box
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...Frenchmen convicted of planning to mail a severed head in a box a la Seven...
...since General Norman Schwarzkopf's famous briefing at the end of the Gulf War. As Boies carefully articulated the Vice President's positions in a Midwestern rasp--he grew up in small-town Illinois--his hands, a foot or so apart, moved as if he were gently shaking a box to see what was inside...
...then Boies is on his feet, calmly elucidating--without notes, of course--the four essential points of his argument, his hands sometimes shaking the invisible box, his thumbs sometimes making a pair of goalposts. He cites page numbers and percentages and the specific copyright status of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and My Man Godfrey. Then the sun rises in the west: Boies asks the court's forbearance while he looks up a page number he cannot recall...
...synergy? The two companies have already found ways to boost growth by cross-selling subscriptions and advertising and running promotions for Time Warner content on AOL. Last summer a promotion on AOL is credited with boosting box-office returns for The Perfect Storm. Perhaps the best success so far has come from collaboration between Time Inc. president Don Logan and Pittman, who engineered a scheme to sell magazine subscriptions via AOL. So far, the combination has produced more than 500,000 orders...
...REBOOT, RECYCLE Anyone who finds a PC under the tree this year faces the question of what to do with the now outdated box. You can convert that old PC into a write-off rather than a doorstop--provided it's not too ancient. Groups like Share the Technology match PC donors with worthy charities. Or, for $29.99 IBM will take your PC and fix it up for a charity or recycle...