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...Gore's daughter, 27-year-old Karenna Gore Schiff, also attended with her husband, Drew. Schiff likes to downplay her influence, making like a daughter who just wants to be there to support Dad. But the truth is she's hawk-eyed about every detail. Before Gore was to go out, the MTV team did a few one-on-ones with him in a hallway for other shows. MTV correspondent John Norris started to position Gore for a Q&A for the hit music countdown show "Total Request Live." As he did, Schiff, in black pants, red tank...
...should point out one other detail. Seeing the same poll results each morning shouldn't reinforce people's beliefs about the strength of a candidate's lead. It turns out that the most cited polls, those coming out each day from Voter.com and Gallup, are rolling surveys. They represent three to four day trends. When a new poll comes out, it's actually 67 to 75 percent an old poll. So, not surprisingly, the polls don't change much...
Looks like Wen Ho Lee will go on trial, after all. It's not that the plea agreement he reached with the government to end his nine-month incarceration is off; rather, FBI director Louis Freeh is set to detail his agency's case against Lee before the Senate Tuesday - the same day as the New York times published a nuanced mea culpa for the instances in which its coverage of the story "fell short of our standards." In an effort supposedly to justify the government's incarceration of the fired Los Alamos nuclear scientist - questioned even by President Clinton...
...fact that Freeh is explaining in great detail the government's suspicions after Lee's case was concluded by a plea agreement that convicted him only of one felony count of mishandling classified information suggests that the FBI believes its evidence will fare better in the Senate than it would have done in a courtroom. Of course, civil-rights advocates will howl at the appearance of double jeopardy, and question the fairness of giving the prosecution a second chance in a setting whose evidentiary standards are not those of a courtroom. And even before that to the media, once again...
...HUPD detail officer, assigned to a motorcade outside the Faculty Club, reported that a man walked up and began harassing the motorcade. CPD took the man into custody for disorderly conduct...