Word: weekends
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...executive of a dotcom start-up called Digital Club Network, was visiting a public high school in Silicon Alley in downtown Manhattan and was amazed that it had no computers. He dashed off an e-mail to a handful of fellow CEOs suggesting that they get together over a weekend and put the school online. More than 150 volunteers showed up for what turned into the digital equivalent of a barn raising. Rasiej, 41, was standing on a ladder, pulling computer cable through the high school's ceiling with Gene DeRose, CEO of Jupiter Communications, when he suddenly...
...waiter at a local restaurant, Leslie is one of 52 weekend hackers who showed up last week for what its extreme-sports organizers call the "U.X. Open." The grand prize: an invitation to the finals in West Virginia later this year. But not everyone took the tournament seriously. Two of Leslie's buddies stuffed their worn golf bags full of ice cubes and Budweisers...
...summit opened Friday in Okinawa. And after reading the newspaper headline, "G-77 frustrated with G-8 inaction on debt relief," it became readily apparent that you won't exactly impress friends or chat up that attractive account executive at the weekend barbecue recounting the drama of the summit, no matter how many hundreds of millions of dollars the Japanese government is spending on this annual ritual. Instead, I offer the following tidbits that should be immediately inserted into conversation as soon as there is even the slightest hint of any summit talk...
Enjoy the weekend...
...position has not changed. He doesn't want to be asked," says McCain political aide John Weaver, who made a special call to Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh on Friday to make that point. But that won't stop the speculation. Cheney's office called to get McCain's weekend telephone numbers, as they did with several other contenders. Saturday, McCain and Bush are attending the funeral of Georgia senator Paul Coverdell in Atlanta. Despite the solemnity of the event, very little of what the two men do at the service will go undetected and unremarked upon...