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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...international treaty granting global control of its ubiquitous five-ring logo. But the greybeards who run the committee were caught napping by the age of the Internet. Olympic.com was snapped up by a reputable U.S. paint company of that name, so the IOC lumbers on with the less catchy olympic.org (Although official sponsor IBM did snag olympics.com for this year's Sydney Games site...
...what about at the other end? From Harvard to the FBI is a less frequently documented move. What about those of us who dream of one day donning the badge? You have to be a U.S. citizen--or a citizen of the Northern Mariana Islands--between the ages of 23 and 36. You have to be willing to go wherever the FBI wants to send you. You have to have uncorrected vision no worse than 20/200 and nearly perfect corrected vision. You can't be color-blind, and you have to be able to drive. You must have graduated from...
...application to be an intern isn't much less intense. Nevertheless, many of us have dreamed of heading to Quantico for 16 weeks of intense training in pursuit of the biggest bad-ass title of all: Special Agent...
...that's more than half of the projected budget surplus, which is itself a wobbly estimate and is already being spent by Congress--will go to families with an income over $250,000. Princeton economist Paul Krugman estimates that even a family making $80,000 a year would get less than $20 per week off its taxes once the plan was fully phased in; a family making $1 million would get $1,000 per week. Giving surplus money back to the people is the backbone of self-government, but the money must be accounted for first. Even Bush officials admit...
...said) is draining out of this one. The race began by raising two fundamental questions: How strange is Gore? How dumb is Bush? There are real policy differences, of course, but personality trumps those. The answer is emerging - the sum of Al's weirdness works out to be less than the sum of W.'s dumbness. That, anyway, is the current state of play. It could yet change...