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...ticket was the Texas Black Tie & Boots Ball--retro, perhaps, but still honoring the great Inaugural tradition of excess and bad taste. All week long the capital was filled with Halloween Texans, dressed in a way they never would have been at home. They sold out of full-length furs in Midland, Texas; for those who had never seen a ranch, $450 Stetsons were selling briskly at the Ritz-Carlton, where the chef was whipping up rattlesnake nachos and Dubya's favorite, a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, was going...
Result: the second beam was compressed more than 100 millionfold in length and "stored" in the form of altered energy states and spin patterns in the atoms. When the triggering beam was turned back on, the light was reconstituted and sped...
...stage festooned with blinking lights ran the length of the room. One transvestite gyrated upon it in a translucent top and high heels. Another lay nearby, legs akimbo, doing something unspeakable with a cigarette. I couldn't quite see what: there were so many heads craning into my line of vision. A song was playing, scratchily amplified: "Ladyboy, ladyboy/ I wanna be a ladyboy...
Bush said last week he had talked at length with Ashcroft, especially about civil rights, and was convinced of his integrity and his fairness. They are in some ways kindred spirits, though Bush came late to the values Ashcroft has always held. Sources tell TIME that Bush was thinking about Ashcroft as a possible Attorney General as early as March 1998--a full year before Bush admitted he was running for President. (Bush didn't know him well, but Bush's father did--and had even considered him for Attorney General in 1991.) Bush has mentioned Ashcroft in sentences that...
...February of 1999, a freshman guard named Jenn Monti drove the length of the floor in 5.7 seconds and hit an off-balance three at the buzzer to propel Harvard over Brown...