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...Gore campaign's gamble on Florida could turn out to be a brilliant battlefield maneuver, but it could also be remembered as a fatal blunder. Bush aides say the Vice President's concentration of time and money on the Sunshine State has cost him in other regions. "They thought they could fight us on our own turf in Florida," says Matthew Dowd, Bush's polling guru, "but while they were doing that, they let things slip" elsewhere. When the Texas Governor began running ads in traditionally Democratic West Virginia last summer, the Gore campaign responded for a few weeks, then...
...perhaps his most brilliant and lethal display was in 1995, when Gore and Clinton adviser Dick Morris pushed Clinton to break with the Democrats to agree to a balanced budget. Gore then doubled back on Morris, who wanted Clinton to sign on to a budget bill that would have cut Medicare and other popular programs. Arguing against a deal, Gore predicted the government shutdown and convinced Clinton it would play into his hands. Gore, who wrote his college thesis about how the power of television gives the President an edge over Congress, even coached the President on exploiting the media...
...avideotape from him early in the process and we didn't even open it. But then we had five days left and we didn't have a Lenny. So almost at the choke we said open the tape from Oklahoma. We quickly flew him out. He was brilliant, but he wasn't the character. So we crossed our fingers and threw him in with a dialect coach and 24 hours later the coach called and said "he's got it." Ryan is an idiot-savant, except he's not an idiot. He just knows...
Harvard wasn't done scoring in the first half, with its second goal arriving at 27:36 off the foot of senior midfielder Meredith Stewart. Following a brilliant pass by Westfall, Stewart blasted one past Demers for a 2-0 Crimson lead...
...worried about letting down the student body. I know there's so many brilliant people here who could have answered every question right--I didn't want to shame the school," he said...