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...Which brings us to the biggest storm cloud out there: The economy, is she slowing too fast? Formerly high-flying retailers - Gap, J.C. Penney, Target, Home Depot, and Wal-Mart (yes, Wal-Mart) - have been getting downgraded by analysts and dumped by investors, as profit warning after profit warning comes out. When this consumer-driven economy cools, it's the malls that feel the pain first...
...Google's rivals scramble to imitate its best features--Ask Jeeves, for one, now offers popularity rankings--it's worth remembering how recently another pair of Stanford grads seemed similarly unrivaled: David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo. "The darkest cloud on your horizon is if a couple of students come up with something even better," Stanford professor Rajeev Motwani told former student Page over dinner recently. No, replied Page, that will never happen. Still, you can forgive him a little hubris. Enough massages and free ice cream can make anyone feel invincible...
...Clinton. From the indentured servitude of the vice presidency. Even, it may be (to dip presumptuously into the candidate's psyche), from his father's impelling shadow. A formal emancipation. But have those servitudes left behind a permanent shadow? In the minds of some voters there is an interesting cloud of doubt about Gore and what he adds...
...France flight. Chirac's plane had been taxiing toward the terminal but paused to let the Concorde take off. As Chirac and his wife watched the pride of French technology speed down the runway, they were appalled to see flames shooting from its left side, then the cloud of smoke that followed the crash. Chirac's first instinct was to rush to the scene, but he decided his presence would complicate rescue efforts. He returned to the presidential palace, where he telephoned his condolences to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder...
...John Cloud. With reporting by Rita Healy/Denver