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...August 2006, Bobby Jindal had to unexpectedly help his wife Supriya deliver the couple's third child at home. It was possibly the only thing that has happened in his life for which he didn't have a multipoint plan. Louisiana's new Republican Governor boasts a level of ever-prepared wonkiness that doesn't typically appeal to the state's voters, who often opt for colorful pols, glad handers and bons vivants. Jindal knows he'll never be that guy. Why try to fake it? "For too long, politics have been entertainment in Louisiana," he tells me two days...
...figure it out as they go along makes for nonstop comedy. They flood their engines, shoot themselves, crash their cars and steal sacks of mail instead of money. Once, John Dillinger discovered that his wheelman had parallel parked the getaway car; he had to make an Austin Powers--style multipoint turn before he could peel out. The G-men weren't much better. The FBI was staffed by bumbling college kids and led by a raccoon-eyed, sexually ambiguous desk jockey named J. Edgar Hoover, who at the time had never even made an arrest. But celebrity gangsters create...
...Both are more expensive than cable and DSL (monthly fees can run more than $100 for unlimited use), but satellite dishes can be used almost anywhere, including vacation cabins and other rural locations. Several companies are also experimenting with a ground-based wireless technology known as multichannel, multipoint distribution service, or MDDS. It's a mouthful, but it can deliver speeds as fast as 5 million...
...Clinton for organizing protests against the Vietnam War as a Rhodes scholar in England, one citizen asked, "Can we focus on the issues and not the personalities and the mud?" Thereafter, the debate settled into a remarkably civil exchange far better suited to Clinton's talent for rattling off multipoint plans than to Bush's attempts to defend his record. (Perot, the consensus winner of the first debate, this time appeared vague and rambling, his folksiness turned wearying.) Observers noted Bush sneaking glances at his watch, as if impatient to get away -- perhaps from just the debate, perhaps from...
...managing director until the campaign, has run for the office in textbook style, waving from old-fashioned motorcades, which snake almost daily through the city's black and ethnic neighborhoods. The Wharton School graduate soberly stresses his 17-year record of public service and painstakingly delineated "multipoint programs." His economic development plan is so detailed, Egan sneers, that "Wilson Goode has more positions than...