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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is, strategists are at least as harmful as they are helpful. Vice President Al Gore '69 blamed his campaign for his own early misteps, and so hired disgraced former Democratic representative Tony Coehlo to run it. And then, Coehlo hired a consultant, a tabacco company lawyer named Carter Eskew, who hates current Gore consultant Bob Squier. That means that two top Gore advisers are giving each other the silent treatment...
...story. What is is the failure of the Gore campaign to deflect attention from their own internal woes. What good are Gore's image consultants if they can't even spin internal disagreements with in their own campaigns? No wonder that Gore's issue message is being eclipsed by former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Polls in key states like New Hampshire and Michigan show a definite Bradley surge at a time when Gore is supposed to enjoy the benefits of incumbency...
Bush keeps his father's former aides on the periphery, and has left his campaign to Karl Rove, a brilliant personal friend who knows Bush a lot more than he knows about national campaigning...
...convict a spy, you need to prove that a crime was actually committed, and then prove that it was committed by the accused. That?s why former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee is unlikely to be charged with espionage, despite achieving national notoriety in the spring following reports that China had stolen U.S. nuclear secrets. If he is charged it will be on the not-exactly-treacherous charge of gross negligence in handling classified information ? all too common among Lee?s colleagues and other government officials ?- although Lee?s lawyers are meeting with Justice Department officials Tuesday to make...
...music there's an important difference between experimentation and invention: the former implies the willingness to challenge convention; the latter also suggests the ability to create interesting new sounds. This Mexican group is one of the most praised Spanish-language rock bands around, but unfortunately its new double CD is perhaps more experimental than inventive. The first part features instrumentals that draw on Latin pop and European classical traditions; the second features vocals influenced by art-rock, bolero and other genres. More than a few songs on this provocative collection have the power to enchant, yet this band surely...