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...kind of ammunition they used to riddle Bill Bradley's body during the primaries, and Democrat kingmakers are now worrying that Bush looks like a visionary and Gore looks like a hidebound nit-picker. So Gore's aides now tell the Washington Post their man now means to hang back a bit. He'll look for ways to extend Bill Clinton's best legacies into something Al can call his own - and tell more personal stories, meant to help Gore's famously elusive lovable side finally crawl out into the sun. Here's one from Tuesday: "My father taught...
...across from a Hardee's. It's the Jesse Helms Center, set up nine years ago as a shrine for the North Carolina Senator in an old white neoclassical home with a wide portico and fluted columns. Inside, Helms has a replica of his Washington Senate office. On walls hang hundreds of photos of him pumping hands with Presidents and foreign leaders. There's also a framed copy of his floor speech during Bill Clinton's impeachment trial and a letter from Spiro Agnew: Thanks for being "a truly wonderful friend...
...experiencing a mild epiphany: "She is a woman whose life is crowded with not-unpleasant errands and with the entrapment of fragrant, familiar, and sometimes enchanting items, all of which possess a reassuring, measurable weight and volume." The story concludes: "Not that this is much of a handrail to hang on to--she knows that, and so do I--but it is at least continuous, solid, reliable as narrative in its turnings and better than no handrail...
...privilege of playing Anakin Skywalker in the next two installments of the Star Wars franchise, HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN says he would have been happy to walk away with the souvenirs of the audition process: "I got to meet George Lucas, hang out at Skywalker Ranch, and I got a couple of new hats," he reports. As it turns out, the 19-year-old, all but unknown Canadian muscled out some of the best-known actors in North America (reportedly including Leonardo DiCaprio) to claim the starring role. Picking up the part from JAKE LLOYD, who starred in Episode 1, Christensen will...
...numbers," says TIME New York correspondent Elaine Rivera. "She can't afford to make any more enemies, especially upstate." Lazio, on the other hand is dealing with an opponent that Rivera says Pataki, with his name and his money, "really could have stomped" outside Manhattan - and if Lazio can hang onto his centrism, that 32 percent has a lot of room to grow. Lazio will take off this week on an upstate barnstorm through Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Elmira and Binghamton, towns the First Lady has had to herself thus far. And then it's off to tony Westchester County, just...