Word: gore
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...includes commercials purchased by the Democratic National Committee, aired on CNN. At rallies last week in New Jersey and on the White House lawn, Clinton pounded the podiums with calls for the G.O.P. to get with the program. "If Bob Dole and the special interests win," Vice President Al Gore told another crowd on Capitol Hill, "millions of Americans will lose...
...sorry for these people" and "felt as if she had exploited them." But then quickly counters with the fact that she paid them very well. All the "stars" are real transsexuals--some pre-, some post-operative. We get to know them inside and out, literally. This film verges on gore, with its shots of graphs of the female and male reproductive organs that quickly turn into the real thing. We find our what it is like to be a woman trapped inside a man's body and vice versa. We see the full range of their confused emotions...
Senator Al Gore (D-Tenn.; left office...
...Rwandan refugees languishing in Zaire is threatening to become too expensive for aid organizations. Relief officials say the contagious, bloody diarrhea is proving resistant to common antibiotics currently in use in the refugee camps, forcing doctors to turn to more sophisticated and expensive medicines. The Veep's wife, Tipper Gore, spent nearly five hours in the largest Zairian refugee camp, Kibumbo, aiding refugees weakened by disease. "They just need someone to hold their hand, love them and hug them," she said. "At least I can do that...
...next day, when loyal supporters protested, the President claimed he was sticking with his original goal. But on Thursday night, Senate majority leader George Mitchell sat down in the Oval Office with the President, the First Lady, Vice President Al Gore and new chief of staff Leon Panetta and delivered some bad news: no plan as ambitious as Clinton's could pass the Senate. Instead Congress would try to produce a "less bureaucratic" plan. Universal coverage would still be the goal, but it would have to be phased in very slowly. With less than three months before congressional elections, Clinton...