Word: gore
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...friends of the Qaddafi-esque ilk. Perhaps even more disquieting than the largely symbolic fraternity between Qaddafi and Mandela, were last year's allegations that Mandela intended to sell chemical weapons to Syrian dictator Hafiz al-Assad. This episode was followed by a state visit by Vice President Al Gore Jr. '69 to South Africa during which Gore is reported not to have even broached the subject of the arms deal in his conversations with the South African president...
About that severed head--no Roscian horror here. The thing in its net bears an unhappy resemblance to a holiday ham. But the over-the-top quantity of fake gore painted onto Agave and her costume helps to close the gap between prop and reality...
...Gephardt (or at least Gephardt 2000), the stakes are just as high. This is a huge chance to stick it to Gore (while bringing most of the House Democrats with him) on a working-guy issue that will play gangbusters on the campaign trail. For once he may pull...
...White House can protect its votes, Fast Track should pass the Senate eventually. That would set up quite a battle in the House, where Dick Gephardt, flush with support from Big Labor, is determined to hold out against Gore and the rest of the Administration's free-trade crowd. It's too early to pick a winner. But expect a casualty...
...came Monday, when the White House learned that House minority leader Dick Gephardt was planning to support the bill. That would open the way for nervous Democrats to get behind it in droves, maybe even enough to give it a veto-proof majority. It also threatened to leave Al Gore stranded as apologist for the taxman in the next Democratic presidential primaries, which potential rivals like Gephardt and Kerrey would be happy to see. That was enough for Clinton. On Tuesday he went public with his turnaround. On Wednesday the bill rumbled out of Ways and Means with a vote...