Word: gore
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...mention rancorously. House Democrat Jim Cooper of Tennessee, whose stalled plan was upstaged at a moment when he is running hard to capture the Senate seat vacated by Vice President Gore, said dismissively that a bill that passes in committee "by a one-vote partisan majority is one that doesn't have any legs or wings." Stark rejoined sarcastically: "I just think he's exactly what Tennessee deserves, and I wish him Godspeed in the Senate." As for Cooper's plan, Stark says, "His bill is all pap and blather. Everybody's got to love it because it doesn...
Vice-President Al Gore '69, self proclaimed "information guru," has taken the banner of the new age, promising to lead us all down the information superhighway to more enlightened times. The Clinton Administration has endorsed a proposal to allow companies to form a multimedia conglomeration...
...scandals, nothing dug up so far has been ruinous, but all of it is corrosive in a White House struggling to shield not one but two embattled leaders. After months of slippery evasions, the Administration abruptly changed strategies. As Republicans shouted for congressional hearings, officials from Vice President Al Gore on down fanned out to television shows to express their measured contrition. "Whitewater isn't about cover-ups," said counselor David Gergen on Nightline. "It's about screw-ups." Said policy adviser George Stephanopoulos: "Did the damage- control team create a lot more damage than it controlled? I think that...
...Gore claimed dubiously that a three-strikes law would make a "huge dent in violent crime," Clinton endorsed expanding the death penalty to 52 federal offenses, including the attempted assassination of the President; today, only a drug-related killing is a capital crime. Those on the front lines are appalled. "I know of no law-enforcement professional who believes the ((new)) death-penalty provisions would affect public safety in the slightest," says Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's respected district attorney. Equally troublesome, declared Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, the death penalty "remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake." According...
Those like Al Gore, who says "we're searching for what works," should stop searching and work to beef up the one remedy proved to make a difference. If, on the other hand, toughness is defined by proliferating three-strikes laws, or by executing a few more of the worst among us, then, as the recently resigned Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann says, politics will continue to "overwhelm reason," and we'll be back "searching for what works" after the next election...