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In the latest polls, Gore and Lieberman are virtually tied with Texas Gov. George W. Bush and his running mate Richard B. Cheney, after falling to a double-digit deficit after last week's Republican convention. The Democrats will hold their convention next week.
"Forty-nine members of [Lemkin's] family were exterminated in the Holocaust," she said. Lemkin eventually migrated to the U.S., where, according to Power, he worked tirelessly to convince the U.N. to ratify the Genocide Convention.
Even when the U.N. approved the convention in 1948 it was a bittersweet victory for Lemkin, according to Power. The U.S. Senate refused to ratify the convention, and Lemkin died a year later.
Outside, there have been shouting matches, shoving matches and singing matches (the Perot people are partial to "We Shall Overcome"). There have been standoffs with security forces. Each side is claiming to be the one true Reform party. "This is the main theater, this is the Reform party convention," the...
Inside, Buchanan's henchmen - committee chairman Gerald Moan and head credentialer Frank Reed - are doing just that. And it looks like a city council meeting: old white men, mostly, trying to understand parliamentary procedure, trying to figure out which delegates are still showing up, trying to get to a point...