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...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 I'd kicked his [rhymes with striped bass]," Richards told a Gore strategist recently. But the voters were keeping a tally sheet of their own, Richards...
Otherwise, while the truth may be out there, it was not in the Ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Huntington hotel. Will Scully deliver the baby this season? "I haven't thought about it yet." You wouldn't have had Mulder and Scully consummate their relationship off-screen last season, would you? "[Viewers] will have their prurience indulged." Could Scully turn out not to be pregnant at all? "I would never assume anything in 'The X-Files.' But I think that would be a real cheat... It would be like bringing back a dead character." Which, by the by, the series...
...collars of Southampton at a glittery party attended by wealthy liberals from Manhattan over the 4th of July weekend. At the 78th annual dinner of the Agudath Israel, he outschmoozed all the other pols there. He was at the center of a thousand bobbing black hats in the Hilton ballroom eager to get a closer look at the golden son of Italy who had come seeking their support. He seems to embody white-picket-fence family values. You'd want him to marry your daughter if he hadn't already married his grad-school sweetheart who's produced two adorable...
...pretty good bet that the Founding Fathers, in all of their deliberations in the sweltering summer of 1776, never called on the services of a "facilitator." Not so in Ballroom D of the Renaissance Hotel in Denver. There, a committee of the Green Party put the final touches on the group's platform. "If things get to be too much," said the facilitator, a young woman in a peasant skirt, "there may be times I ask for a moment of silence." As it turned out, a time-out wasn't needed. Despite a few hours of haggling over language...
HOST The officious "pronouncer" Dr. Alex Cameron SETTING Hotel ballroom in Washington ELIMINATED CONTESTANT Sean Conley, 12, who misspelled the word apotropaic VIEWERS TUNED IN To see if they're smarter than 12-year-olds