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...effectively articulated a commitment to bipartisanship. He repeated his GOP convention assertion that Clinton and Gore had failed to fulfill their campaign promises after seven years in office and pledged to create an administration that would trust people to make the choices to improve their own lives. Perhaps to counter an impression that he would not be up to the job, Bush explained that his decision-making process would include soliciting advice from advisors and others on his "team," emphasizing his role as chief executive officer of the second-largest state in the nation. Of the two candidates, Bush also...
...Dolliole asserted that Bush needs "a decisive winning performance" to counter Gore's post- convention surge. Analysts estimate that Gore currently holds a slight lead in the Electoral College, but there are enough battleground states to make the election a tossup...
...argue that Saro-Wiwa invited and incited the Ogoni to unjust civil disobedience; others claim that while he never ordered murders, he is still responsible for fanning the flames of frustration in the hearts of the Ogoni with his words and actions. Undoubtedly, Saro-Wiwa mobilized the Ogoni to counter the gross injustice of their situation. He believed in the accountability of Shell to Ogoni, who's land was being exploited; and he believed they should be compensated for their loss...
...dawn, Shawn Fanning lay on the brown carpet in the shadow of a converted bar counter, consumed by the idea. He had been awake 60 straight hours writing code on his notebook computer. In his daze, the idea appeared to him as something tangible--a hard, shiny piece of black metal--that he had to forge and form so that it became usable, so that the hard black metal was transformed into a friendly tool, so that the 0s and 1s, the Windows API protocols and Unix server commands, were all somehow buffed and polished and worked to a fine...
...material. The one senior Bush adviser who hadn't been interviewed as of Saturday afternoon was chief campaign strategist Karl Rove. That fact alone started a torrent of speculation. The storm intensified with reports that the FBI had identified a suspect within the Bush campaign. That cued Austin to counter indignantly with its own unfounded accusation--that the Clinton-Gore Justice Department was leaking lies to sow chaos in the Bush campaign. In Goreland, they were sweating their own scandal. Gore officials suspended a mid-level aide who admitted to ABC News that he had boasted to a friend that...