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...York Knick. Squabbling over voting records and health plans denied Bradley the space to dunk over Gore, which he badly needed to do if he was going to reel in the vice president's lead. Where Bush had done his best to look presidential and hold himself above the fray, Gore didn't have to. He'll get plenty of opportunity to look statesmanlike Thursday night behind President Clinton during the State of the Union address. The administration's record is the centerpiece of Gore's campaign, and that record has no finer salesman than President Clinton during his annual...
...without being subject to the FDA review process? And can these supplements be thought of as cures for disease? These are the questions raging around the $6 billion-a-year dietary supplement industry. And supplement manufacturers got a mixed answer Wednesday, when the FDA continued its withdrawal from the fray and ruled that manufacturers can legally claim to treat a variety of symptoms that are considered part of "common passages of life," like menopause and adolescence, but cannot claim to cure actual diseases. Maintenance claims can stand without FDA review, but claims implying curative powers over disease cannot...
...going to play hardball now and then? The options, for Bradley, are to indulge an occasional weakness and go wild on Gore, or to stand back from the fray and slowly fall victim to his very strengths...
...Hamm, the still neurotic Rex and the ever-prone-to-PDA Bo Peep. The sequel adds a few new ones--most notably, Barbie (Mattel realized they lost a major marketing chance when they refused to let Pixar use their infamously-proportioned doll in the first film). Also in the fray are Wayne Knight's villainous Al McWhiggen, a proprieter of a nearby toy store who dreams of selling Woody to a Japanese museum (why Japanese? Exhibit A of Pixar subversiveness); Jesse and Stinky Pete, the missing figures in "Woody's Roundup"; and, of course, Zurg, the Darth Vader...
Yale was the kind of school where ambition wasn't rare. These were the days when Bill Clinton was already plotting his political career. But the future Texas governor stayed out of the fray, concentrating on athletics and a social life--Texas-style pleasures--instead of grand plans for the future...