Word: gore
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HANOVER, N.H.--In their first face-to-face debate of the presidential campaign, Vice President Al Gore '69 and former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley wrestled last night for control of voter momentum in the Democratic party...
Expect the most muted of fireworks. Al Gore and Bill Bradley finally get to face off live on television Wednesday night, but in a game of Horse rather than one-on-one. Rather than hold a direct debate, the two largely centrist policy wonks will appear side by side at a Democratic party town meeting. "The real excitement," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, "will be the degree to which they're drawn into interacting." And if Gore's pregame trash-talking is anything to go by, he?s ready for a professorial rumble - in the weeks preceding the face...
Rather than try and loosen Gore's lock on the party's traditional center, Bradley has defined the Democratic primary season as a battle to win the party?s left flank. The former senator from New Jersey's voting record and policy positions position him well to take advantage of liberals' disappointment with the Clinton administration. And he's pressed home his appeal to the left with big, liberal-friendly policy initiatives in an era of incremental shuffling. He wants to spend $65 billion on health care for all, $10 billion on combating child poverty, and extend full civil rights...
...donate directly to federal-level political campaigns; about $100,000 will be donated to each of 47 mostly Republican congressional candidates. The chamber says it is worried by many of the issues being bandied about by presidential hopefuls, from Bill Bradley's calls for better family benefits to Al Gore's environmentalism to John McCain's push for campaign finance reform - all seen as pro-labor issues. The move also comes right after the endorsement of Gore by America's largest labor group, the AFL-CIO, which also pledged $40 million toward federal campaigns, primarily to Democrats...
Which leaves Gore supporters wondering if their man can build on his week. Those who doubt his fortitude should hear Seattle mountaineer Jim Frush tell how Gore and his son Albert III, 16. climbed Mount Rainier last August. With ice picks and crampons, ropes and harnesses, they began the final grueling ascent at 2 a.m., in white-out conditions, hail and high winds. They summited six hours later. Gore, who hasn't told that story publicly, has been closing his speeches with a generic bit about standing on the summit--"You can see a long...