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...face-to-face confrontation with George W. Bush next week, none has been more sobering than the account of the last person who made the mistake of underestimating Bush's talents as a debater. Back when he was running for Texas governor in 1994, the sharp and salty incumbent Ann Richards thought she had scored a knockout in their only debate; her giddy campaign staff, taking score in the audience of a Dallas hotel ballroom, figured she had made 10 good points to his every one. "I thought I'd kicked his [rhymes with crabgrass]. Everyone around me thought...
...ability to stay focused on his message and shrug off an opponent's barbs. But when he needs to, they say, Bush has shown himself capable of going on the attack. "Which George Bush is going to show up - the one who stayed on the high road with Ann Richards, or the one who was really low-road with John McCain?" says strategist Paul Begala, who is playing Bush in Gore's practice sessions. "I don't have a good guide, because you know what? He won each...
Esko Aho, who became the youngest Finnish Prime Minister in the country's history at the age of 36 in 1991, will join Jamil Mahuad, who just finished his term as Equador's president. Former McCain aide Rick Davis, Medicare chief Nancy Ann DeParle, former congressional representative and Vietnam War protestor Father Robert Drinan and investigative journalist Ted Conover will also lead student study groups that begin next week...
...stereotype of Grandma and Grandpa going to the community center to take a basket-weaving class doesn't stand up," says Ann Kirschner, CEO of an online-education company called Fathom, which is set to launch this fall. "What people over 50 are looking for is expertise and social interaction, as well as convenience and cost. The Internet delivers that like no other medium...
Since 1975, when Karen Ann Quinlan's father went to the New Jersey courts to get her respirator turned off, the debate over dying in America has focused on a narrow question: Is there a right to die? But that struggle, so agonizing and dramatic, overshadows practical questions that will prove more important for most of us: How will we die, and can we die more comfortably...