Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different war than the one he advocated a generation ago. It is a war of contrasts, one that pits the firepower of history's most powerful military alliance against a scorched-earth campaign. It is a war of double-checking all targets yet still blowing civilians into clots of gore and shreds of clothing as they flee their homeland, seeking to escape both Serbian wrath and NATO impotence...
...cracked, and his suit and tie--as he makes a point of telling me at a doughnut shop in Claremont, near the Vermont border--are suffering through their second straight campaign day. For the former New Jersey Senator, an insurgent trying to grab the Democratic nomination from Al Gore, genteel shabbiness signifies authenticity. Bradley wants you to know he's got bigger things--purer things--on his mind, and the doughnut shop is packed with people who have come to hear about them (and a few who just want coffee and crullers). Ten months before the primary, voters still outnumber...
...ideas are meant to contrast with the poll-tested, bite-size notions Gore has been promoting lately (a telephone hot line for traffic-jam updates, an airline passenger's bill of rights), but Bradley won't offer details or even hint at how he would get these big things done. ("Come fall, we'll be making a series of major proposals," he says.) For now, at least, people don't seem to mind. His call for reform has helped establish a beachhead in New Hampshire, a contrarian state famous for punishing front runners and lifting underdogs. Gore has the state...
...this world. He isn't running a campaign so much as testing a thesis: finding out whether he can win without losing his soul. (Sounds corny, but that's the movie he has cast himself in.) When I suggest he's positioning himself just to the left of Gore, he makes me feel crass: "We've got to get beyond this political calculation game," he says, "and give somebody the benefit of the doubt that he's speaking from the heart...
...about the last Congress, which was insufficiently environmental, according to the League of Conservation Voters www.lcv.org) I download a superb four-part, college-level course on the ozone hole from the University of Cambridge (www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html). And I am assured by www.eco.freedom.org/unibomb.htm that Bill Clinton and Al Gore are environmentalists (a deniable charge, surely) and in league with Earth First! and the Unabomber...