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...Henley and Alanis Morissette in front of any crowd in the world, and you would expect an instant epidemic of air guitars. Any crowd, that is, except the Senate Judiciary Committee. Not a single lighter was raised when the ex-Eagle and the queen of ironic rock testified at a digital-music hearing last Tuesday. Indeed, the duo's presence had been effectively overshadowed by a single press release, and Henley knew it. "As Alanis and I sit here," he said, "there is a Ping-Pong game going on over our heads about business models on the Internet...
...Except that, unlike Octavio and Valeria, El Chivo is shrewd enough to recognize something of himself in the killer dog, and to begin to make peace with his haunted past. It may be too late for any full-scale reconciliations, but his is the only hopeful story Inarritu tells, the one that catches this aspect of his belief: "We lose our innocence, our looks, our loves, finally life itself. We are what we lose...
...lead negotiator, Beijing ambassador Joseph Prueher, to tell the Chinese. The U.S., however, in an upgrade of regret, did move from saying it was "sorry" for the airspace incursion to saying it was "very sorry." In the end Beijing complied with every aspect of Powell's initial agenda, except the last of seven bullet points - return of the plane...
...Except that the most notable noises have not been from the agency itself but from the nine-member IRS Oversight Board, which was imposed on the agency in 1998 as part of one of the Gingrich brigade's ritual public flayings. The board issued a 24-page report Friday urging that the agency's budget for fiscal 2002 be $10.2 billion, or nearly 9 percent higher than Bush's allotment of $9.4 billion...
...victims' families would have the satisfaction of knowing that the McVeighs (isolated, no personal effects, no television, no visitors, nothing except a cot, a toilet and enough calories to survive) themselves knew, until the day of actual death: that they had vanished from the earth...