Democrats are hoping the recounts will close the slim lead Governor Bush enjoys in the statewide total and give Mr. Gore a psychological weapon against the Republicans' efforts to end the counting and the race.
But while Brady and Belichick have won numerous games and twice put themselves this close, the slim space between thumb and forefinger, to another championship in recent years, their recent history is that of falling short, closer to the Buffalo Bills of the early 1990s than any historic N.F.L. dynasties.
Or if you try to close the ultra-slim case with an 8-inch-tall heatsink on your overclocked CPU, it'll just clank.
A sausage maker close to the Slim Jim production process, speaking on the condition of anonymity, revealed to us that a Slim Jim is smoked at between 110 and 140 degrees for 22 hours and then allowed to cool at 50 degrees with next to no humidity.
As I closed this slim volume, I was left wanting to know more about him, not less.
Saturday at 4 05 AM Pacific is the first launch opportunity, but if weather forbids it, they'll just try again soon after — the chances of clouds sticking around all the way until June 8, when the launch window closes, are slim to none.
In his two-hours-plus closing argument Wednesday, Charles Cooper, the slim, white-haired lawyer arguing against same-sex marriage, evoked the Paul Newman character in "The Verdict," a man who was out of his depth against a superior legal team.
The Dow fell as much as 200 points on Wednesday and traded below 9,000 for the first time since October, but it closed with a slim loss of 6.71 points.
Both models will be VESA compliant for easy wall mounting, but JVC will also offer its own mounting solution – a wall mount designed to position the slim TV closer to the wall than does a standard mount.
Ironically, the closest Slim gets to computer literacy is navigating his Palm V: He uses the calculator and address book, but someone else has to enter the addresses and phone numbers for him.
The photo below, which comes via NeoGAF, shows the "Slim" console up close.
