Word: chuck
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...happy talk centered on whom, with McCain out of the game, Bush might pick as his running mate. The merits of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge and Senators Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Fred Thompson of Tennessee were all discussed. Other names were mentioned too. When the two men got more comfortable, McCain tossed off a few campaign suggestions. Take up Al Gore's challenge to debate, McCain advised. Don't settle for only a handful of engagements where the expectations will inflate beyond reason, but keep Gore in a tight clinch, debating early and often. Bush said he'd think...
...Democrats. "When it came out recently that high tech was giving a lot more money to the Democrats, Republicans were appalled," Branegan says. "They want to show that they're the free-trade, pro-business party, and to make up that gap." The sight of a liberal lion like Chuck Rangel bucking labor and cozying up to big business is as good a wake-up call...
...crew of Cast Away is shooting "the moment." Hanks' emaciated, exposure-ravaged character, Chuck Noland, fleeing the island on which he's been marooned for four years after a plane crash, pounds through the surf and raises the sail: the wall of a portable toilet that washed ashore. (The sight, I am assured, is meant to be inspiring.) "There isn't much acting going on today," apologizes director Robert Zemeckis, who teamed with Hanks on 1994's Forrest Gump. It's more like boxing. Hanks clambers, panting, onto the command ship Aftershock, barking, "Big ones! Those were great!" Like...
...Unabomber on hunger strike? Later, as we watch playbacks--a tight shot of a drenched Hanks rolling his eyes--Zemeckis offers another. "It's Moses! You're talking to God!" Hanks laughs at his woebegone image, his voice dropping to a thunder-of-Jehovah bass: "'Damn you!' That's Chuck Heston, baby! Chuck Heston Noland...
...lots of arms instead, some of them stretching far out into cyberspace. "The Internet has helped people keep in touch in a shorter time frame," says Chuck Munson, 34, who runs a website called Infoshop.org that acts as a meeting place for anarchists, who are notoriously hard to organize. "The advantage is that we can communicate with each other quickly...