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...phony and a cutthroat" and cannot wait to take him on. While he doesn't quite know what to make of the Vice President, people close to him say, he has a gut dislike for him. Already you can hear it when he talks about Gore's "slash-and-burn politics": "Mr. Gore, I'm not going to let you get away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore has become a stalking-horse for all those elitist...
...Trench Town and met with Bob Marley's widow Rita. The prince was anointed with a crown of dreadlocks fastened to a Rastafarian cap, which he donned briefly, and backward, before doffing it because of the heat. Rita Marley said had her husband been there, he would have "burn[ed] a spliff--a big, big spliff...
...long, long time from March to November. By fall, George W. Bush and Al Gore will be gasping for breath and suffering from third-degree media-burn, and we will all be so sick of the two of them that we will consider giving up our citizenship. We will fitfully tune politics in and out. Will the networks bother to cover the conventions? Mom, when will we be there...
...only comparably dazzling spectacle was the one in the next ring, where McCain was loudly assuring conservative Republican loyalists that he was one too, not some kind of closet Democrat, and that it was O.K. to vote for him; they wouldn't burn in hell--in fact, they might at last wind up with a winner in November. "Don't fear this campaign, my fellow Republicans. Join it," he said, again and again...
...Last Day of Summer," the fact that love always ends ("There is No If...") and flowers that eventually die ("Bloodflowers"), but it's the lyrics of "39" that seem most appropriate: "I used to feed the fire but the fire is almost out...and there's nothing left to burn." Somehow these last two, almost prophetic, songs are also the most driven. Even diehard fans are likely to be embarrassed...