Word: ways
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...number they wind up with may not be good enough for Al Gore. David Boies, the veep's head lawyer and best spinner, says he'll get up early on Monday morning and add Palm Beach to next week's Miami-Dade fight - because he doesn't like the way the dimpled chads are being treated by the county's canvassing board. (They're being counted, but only if the voter poked some other dimples...
...real audio, and the thing I did on "Conan" with the lips, they're like funny visual gimmicks that kind of make it fun, it just keeps me interested. I was really getting fried on sketch comedy when Conan came along, and the idea of doing sketches that way was just such a pleasant diversion. That's like a vaudeville bit, that Bill Clinton thing that I do. But I like playing with silly visual tricks, and this is just one more where I'm combining puppets and animals. This thing is basically practical jokes on live animals. I love...
...almost exclusively a creature of large multipurpose arenas, showing up at odd moments between ice hockey and tractor pulls. But the circus belongs in a tent, under the big top; better still, this one takes place in a single ring, which as far as I am concerned is the way the circus was meant to be seen. Sure, there is something to be said for the pure spectacle of the three-ring circus, but I always found it created a sensory overload that made it hard to focus on the feats of skill and daring that were taking place...
...calm the situation. The decision by Israel's security cabinet Thursday to refrain from another high-profile military retaliation to Wednesday's car bomb that killed two people in northern Israel is a sign that Israel's prime minister has recognized the danger in trying to shoot his way out of a crisis...
...Although Israel vowed to retaliate "in a more efficient way" to the car bombing, a meeting Thursday between Israel's deputy defense minister and the secretary general of the Palestinian Authority appears to have established terms for a new cease-fire. Israel has agreed to withdraw its forces from the edge of Palestinian towns and reopen border crossings to coincide with the onset of Ramadan. In exchange, the Palestinian Authority has undertaken to stop shootings and other violent actions on the Palestinian side. Barak and Arafat reportedly also agreed in a phone conversation Friday to restore the Israeli-Palestinian security...