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John McCain: The Wall Street Journal "Washington Wire" reports that he will publish his memoirs in the presidential run-up year of 1999, and that an editor who bid on the book says the excerpt he saw brought tears to his eyes.
In the run-up to the 1991 Broadway hit The Will Rogers Follies , composer Cy Coleman took to doing the big song--"Never Met a Man I Didn't Like"--at benefit performances all over town.
Le Monde of Paris devoted its front-page lead and its editorial Friday to the continuing tensions between the United States and Europe in the run-up to the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle at the end of November.
"It would be deplorable if other parties tried to play the extremist card in the run-up to the next general election," the paper said.
This leads me to one conclusion: The vast, exciting run-up in the stock market, yanked along by the (here's a journalistic cliché ripe for the executing) "tech-heavy Nasdaq," may not have been irrational exuberance at all; it may just have been investors' reaction to the tech industry's hundred-billion-dollar holdup of the rest of the country to "fix the bug."