Word: gore
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Michael Jordan may be out. But Bill Bradley is definitely in. Bradley, the former New Jersey senator and NBA star, made it official on Tuesday and filed papers declaring that he'd seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2000. That pits Bradley directly against Vice President Al Gore, the most formidable Democratic heir apparent in a long time. "Evidently Bradley thinks he can do it," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "He's really running for president, and not just positioning himself for vice president. He's the kind of guy who's used to being a star...
...action, all the blood and gore of bombings is really just more material for the cameras to take in. It's the book as snuff film, real pain made distant by the act of filming. At one point, the apparent master terrorist-supermodel Bobby Hughes commands the killing, and then turns to his associate with the camcorder and says "Keep rolling...
...first time she showed a real curiosity about psychological pain was right after Foster's suicide in 1993. She picked up books about depression and started to think of the subject as a real disease. Tipper Gore, for one, helped with Hillary's education in this regard, as did some clergymen, says a friend, whom she consulted about the roots of Bill's recklessness. She hoped to convince herself that "it stems from his screwed-up childhood and his own insecurities, that this is not about...
...Security Council, the U.S. had begun to accelerate, though quietly, toward war. On the way back from the Middle East on Air Force One on Tuesday morning, Clinton, flanked by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, called his military advisers and Vice President Al Gore to discuss the Butler report. The group agreed air strikes were the right response. Clinton then got assurances of British participation from Prime Minister Tony Blair. At 10 p.m. Tuesday, Peter Burleigh, acting American ambassador to the U.N., called Annan and suggested he begin pulling U.N. personnel out of Iraq...
...aboard Air Force One that Clinton confronted what had become his simultaneous preoccupation: Iraq. Later that afternoon, he took part in an hour-long onboard conference call with Vice President Gore and a group of foreign policy advisers that included National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, Defense Secretary William Cohen, CIA Director George Tenet and General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the call, discussion focused first on the report that would be delivered later that day by Richard Butler, chairman of UNSCOM, the U.N. special commission that oversees weapons inspections in Iraq. In scathing terms, Butler...