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Washington lobbying has changed as a result. Not long ago, lobbyists were a lot like their caricature--fat, cigar-smoking men who handed out envelopes stuffed with hundred-dollar bills to compliant lawmakers. Some people who fit that description (except for the cash) still exist, and they're fun to have lunch with. But these days lobbyists are more likely to be advertising executives, public relations specialists, telemarketers, academics and, increasingly, real-life business executives...
...tour persuaded the upstart firms in Virginia and Maryland to band together to give TechNet a run for its PAC money. Led by AOL, Washington-area tech companies formed CapNet last summer to serve as TechNet's echo on the East Coast. It operates much like TechNet except lawmakers don't have to fly across the continent to pick up their campaign-finance checks. The CapNet political-action committee has raised $140,000 so far and by Election Day hopes to reach $200,000. Supplemented by personal donations from stock-rich executives, it's already a force inside the Beltway...
Something right out of an updated Orwell, circa 2084. Except there's no need to wait that long: it's going on today. In offices around the U.S., managers are installing software that monitors their employees' computer activity, both online and off-line--every message sent, every website visited, every file formatted and, perhaps most Orwellian of all, every key stroked, even if the employee never stored the data. And you may never know it's all happening...
...doing something in the middle of the prime time hour," says Smith, "the networks will go to a commercial or do something else. They will not think that's important and I agree. I don't think a convention is the place for entertainment that isn't relevant. Except for the finales. The finales we can have some fun with." Smith is also gleeful over locating a 1928 recording of Al Gore Sr. playing the fiddle. It will be heard (and accompanied live by violinist Mark O'Connor) on Thursday, when the younger Gore accepts the presidential nomination...
...boulangerie and cafe, becomes ridiculous when the woman in charge of archives refuses to let a machine replace her and insists on processing every back issue request herself. In the U.S. the phrase "the customer is always right," is gospel. In France, the client comes last. Every single store, except those in the Jewish quarter, closes on Sunday. Literally half the city goes on vacation in August. Our shower head emits water in a weak trickle, despite multiple complaints to my concierge, it will most likely never be fixed. Air conditioning and same-day delivery--forget...