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...realistic way to do it," Alexander said in a prepared statement to supporters gathered at the state capitol in Nashville. During the 1996 primaries, Bill Clinton had called Alexander the opponent he most feared. Four years later, after pouring the last of his meager campaign funds into an all-out run at the Iowa straw poll - and coming in a dismal sixth - the flannel-wearing, exclamatory walk-across-the-state Alexander was out of donors and options. This year, he can blame it on fellow GOP moderate George W. Bush and his fund-raising Hoover, but TIME senior writer Eric...
...world. "It?s the rule of politics ?- you need money to win, and these days the effort is starting earlier than ever," he says. "Republicans have traditionally raised more soft money, but in 1996, Clinton demonstrated that Democrats could raise the big money too, and now it?s an all-out competition to win the House in 2000." When the returns roll in, on that Tuesday night still 15 months away, the pundits will chalk victory up to the issues. The winners will play along. Democrats, if they retake their old stronghold, will declare that America is tired of guns...
...been resting his shoulder injury and has not thrown all-out for much of the season, but he will probably be able to put forth his best effort at NCAAs...
...Although both governments want to avoid a slide into all-out war, India is determined to respond forcefully to the most serious incursion into its territory since 1948," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "Pakistan may be tempted to defend the infiltrators by attacking Indian planes, but that would mean a full-scale war." Pakistan has denied responsibility for the incursion by heavily armed insurgents, some of whom may have been trained in the Afghanistan camps of alleged superterrorist Osama Bin Laden. But Islamabad's protestations of innocence are dismissed in New Delhi, which insists that an incursion...
...all-out battle that erupted in the Senate over gun control has been turned into something of a guerrilla war in the House. After indicating support Tuesday for the general outlines of the new Senate restrictions on guns, House Republican leaders on Wednesday moved to slow down a Democratic move to immediately pass those restrictions. By a 19 to 13 vote, the House Judiciary Committee shot down a Democratic attempt to force a vote on the gun measures this week, opting instead to study the proposals first and aim for a vote in mid-July. Democrats accused...