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...gentle voice Rawson tells me about how he grew up in east Boston, fast-forwarding almost immediately to his first night in the ring: he won all four fights and received a watch for his troubles-a watch he still has. As the victory watches started to pile up, he sent them off to aunts, uncles and cousins-"Sometimes I'd ask for a lady's watch," he tells...
...said the bone marrow drive was a worthy effort. "Even if it's not going to help him, it will help other people in the future and we all need this," he said.ReutersMAKING A POINTAn anti-uranium mining protester wearing a gas mask stands atop a banner covering a pile of barrels outside the Australian Prime Minister's Sydney office...
...born and raised in D.C. and grew up appearing in his father's campaign commercials. ("Son," Dad said in one, "always love your country.") He learned early the benefits of pretense. Perhaps not surprisingly, then, Gore's response to any problems of personal image making has been to pile further layers of artifice atop his already artificial public persona. At every appearance nowadays he uncorks a couple of self-deprecating gags about his wooden demeanor; he delivers them--surprise--woodenly. He has made gimmicky, scripted appearances on late-night TV. Far worse, however, he has taken a cue from...
...waste of our resources on "crimes" that are merely consensual pleasures, the costly incarceration of millions of harmless Americans, the corruption of police departments by asset-forfeiture programs. If only we would remember that in America money talks and if only we would listen to a person with a pile of it, we might save trillions of dollars and avoid much agony. Now we know how to create change: get a renegade billionaire to back your cause! DAN FURST Honolulu...
...case any more satellites decided to fly into it) ? and Ted Turner pumping Kofi Annan with a billion-dollar handshake (in case the U.N. should collapse for want of Time-Warner shares). Even the Pentagon got jittery when the Oslo accord tried to prise a pile of landmines from its stiff little fingers: We're the world's policemen, sulked the top brass, and if we can't play with our exploding toys, we're going home...