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...Yankees ascended in 1996, stumbled in 1997, were arguably the best team ever in 1998, and barely let up in 1999. They are playing for their third straight World Series crown - look at the last five years, and a Subway Series is just another occasion for the Yankees to dispatch their latest victim while saving on airfare. The recent Mets, meanwhile, have more spirit than stars, more of a habit of late-season collapses than of clutch play, and at best a talent for losing with admirable scrappiness. Until this year...
...settled in Belgrade's streets, but once the revolution started, his simultaneous exhortations for freedom and peace helped ensure that it remained bloodless. True to form, Kostunica displayed little emotion during the tumult. And as the uprising abated, he assumed the duties of head of state with such purposeful dispatch that an inauguration seemed anticlimactic. Analysts in Belgrade termed the overthrow of Milosevic "a miraculous event," but the ease with which Kostunica embraced his historic calling was something of a miracle...
...back. The broadcast--the only one seen regularly throughout the country--of an orchestral concert blacked out, as smoke wreathed the tower. Total victory seemed assured when the notoriously tame state news agency, Tanjug, defected to the opposition, calling Kostunica the "elected President of Yugoslavia" in a dispatch signed "Journalists of liberated Tanjug...
...candidate, his running mate, family members or other surrogates. It highlights places that may respond to a sudden infusion of ad money or to "free media" generated by a campaign visit. When Gore's top advisers confer each morning about where to spend their ad dollars, where to dispatch the candidate and which ground operations need bolstering, the map - along with twice weekly polls and focus groups in battleground states - is one of their crucial tools...
...three weeks ago, the Gore campaign discovered that Bush had whittled its lead in West Virginia to only 3 points - and worse, that Democrats were defecting in droves. The surge came as a shock even to Bush aides, who made a last-minute decision to dispatch Bush to West Virginia on the day before the first debate. Hoping to reverse the trend, Gore responded last week with an ad blasting Bush on the minimum wage, and the unions are kicking into gear on the ground: the United Mine Workers are considering an Election Eve blizzard of 10,000 phone calls...