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Welcome to Pat's Reform party, which is slouching toward August 9 and Long Beach, when a Buchanan ally is expected to be installed as the convention's credentials committee chairman. That's the guy who decides which delegates sit in for the August 10-12 convention and which stand...
The political conventions have been deemed newsworthy again - sort of - by ABC, which has decided that simply having Dennis Miller in the booth was not enough reason to relegate its convention coverage to halftime of two preseason telecasts of "Monday Night Football." The new plan, with an OK from the...
The opening event of the Sail Boston 2000 convention, the Grand Parade of Sail showcased American and European ships as well as sailing vessels from as far away as New Zealand, Indonesia and India. More than a million spectators lined the harbor's shores to catch a glimpse from the...
But chances are it wasn't a surprise. Thursday's showing was about party loyalty, after all, not personal politics - much like John McCain's earlier endorsement of George W. Bush. If Bradley had his druthers, he might not have stepped up to Gore's side; it was only a...
George W. Bush did better at the NAACP convention than Bob Dole did a few years back, but then again, Bush actually showed up. Dole never addressed the group, accusing NAACP president Kwesi Mfume of "trying to set me up" with his invitation. That wasn't a hard act to...