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...update about the race was flashed on the Richmond stations' ticker running beneath prime-time entertainment programming projected on a pair of giant screens. The contrast was astounding from 24 hours earlier when more than 4,000 whoopin' and hollerin' Republicans jammed into a hangar for an hour-long drop-in by President Bush, who took ownership of the outcome of Kilgore's race with a get-out-the-vote rally for the ages. Bush's approval rating in Virginia is a little better than half that of the current governor, Democrat Mark R. Warner, and it was clear when...
...Hemingway couldn't play the cut shot like Waugh did. The original target was 100,000 words. But after a year writing in longhand at his dining-room table, Waugh emerged with a manuscript twice that size. Some would sooner take their chances with a Brett Lee yorker than drop this hardback on their toes. "Some days it just flowed, and I'd peel off three or four hours of writing at a time," says Waugh. One reason there was so much to say, he explains, is that he wasn't properly quizzed in his playing days. "I always said...
This $79 alternative to PowerPoint is, like most Apple software, elegantly designed and supersimple to use. Pick a template and drop in photos, music, videos or charts to spruce up the slides. Move stuff around easily. Bonus feature: set up an interactive, automatic slide show to wow your audience. Just remember to enjoy the applause afterward...
...Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire by David Remnick. What do good journalists do when they find themselves in the middle of the story of a lifetime? Dig till they drop and type like hell. Remnick covered thousands of miles for hundreds of interviews to explain who did what to whom when the Kremlin came tumbling down. The result is history still hot from the crucible...
...never had a nickname, and there is no such thing as a Rabin joke, either about him or by him. Emotion and warmth seem foreign to him. Once on a visit to the White House in 1977, Rabin was asked by President Carter if he would like to drop by Amy's room and say good night. He said no, he wouldn't. While Rabin labors in the shadow of great nation builders -- David Ben- Gurion and Golda Meir -- Arafat stands alone as a folk hero to his people. The teetotaling vegetarian is conniving, disarming, engaging, and quick with such...