Word: closed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...time the meal drew to a close, I was satiated, both spiritually - take that, overpaid politicos! I can eat right next to you! - and physically. I strolled to the front door, stepped out into the humidity and headed back to the hotel, momentarily content in the knowledge that I'd just had the best food I was likely to encounter for a long, long while...
Then came the Final Four scene. Then a colleague told me a friend at CBS told him - in close confidence, of course - that Gervase was the one. And then there was the Greg debacle: CBS posted an article at the "Survivor" site a couple of Wednesdays back that announced the irritating coconut-phone wielder as the victim of that night's council. Which, praise God, he was. Clearly this didn't bode well - a blatant and idiotic mistake...
...Lynch didn't run for President. But I got this right: entire stock portfolios now change hands at the click of a mouse. I stand by my assertion that one day most mutual funds will do the same. They'll be priced throughout the day--not merely at the close--and traders will shoot in and out of them as they would an overhyped...
...June some close friends came to Kennebunkport for Barbara's surprise birthday party. A friend asked, Who are those two over there--the quiet guy with the glasses and the beautiful woman? It was Paul Coverdell from Georgia, a leader in the U.S. Senate, a close friend for many years, and his wife Nancy. I should have told my friend more about Paul. That he loved politics. That he was good at it. That he was a clear example of politics as a noble calling. That quiet can be good...
MONKEY BUSINESS It all sounds eerily familiar. The government wants to take a beloved child from one family because the tyke has another, more closely related family somewhere else. But many consider that place to be little better than a prison. This time it's Brooklyn, not Miami; the youngster in question is a monkey, not a little boy; and the state wants to send the monkey to a Detroit zoo. So how close are the two tales...