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...them as he tries to discredit Bush's plan. The vice president's first stop on Wednesday was a speech to 10,000 senior citizens at an American Association of Retired Persons convention. There and over the next weeks, expect Gore to use the word "risky" very liberally and hint broadly that Bush's plan isn't ready for prime time and neither is Bush. Gore may need to emerge from the shadow of Bill Clinton (who offered Monday that neither plan was as good as his from a few years ago: setting up the individual accounts with money from...
...realize there was a problem." Indeed, it was a bigger problem than anybody, probably even its mischievous creator, could have imagined as computers everywhere tumbled like so many dominoes. Once again that scourge of the Internet age--a computer virus--had struck. Silently, lethally, without even a hint of a warning fever, it raced around the world at light speed, clogging communications and bringing both commerce and politics to a halt...
That minor touch of daring is a hint of what CBS might have made of the New Testament's complex conflict. But as far as Jesus is concerned, that remains the greatest story never told...
...hint that European executives are unduly padding their stock portfolios can still inspire public outrage. In France, polls last year showed that 66% of French citizens wanted to own stock options--until the so-called Jaffre affair exploded. That scandal was sparked by oil giant TotalFina's successful takeover of rival Elf-Aquitaine, and the $35 million stock-option package paid to vanquished Elf CEO Philippe Jaffre to bless the union and walk away. Furious French leftists--who derailed earlier government plans to lower the tax rate on stock-option earnings from 40% to 26%--responded with an unsuccessful campaign...
...Bradley of giving the issue short shrift). The veep recently signed on to President Clinton's plan to devote nearly $200 billion to extending Medicare coverage to prescription drugs, and seemed to turn a blind eye to Wall Street by saying that the drug companies drastically overcharge consumers - a hint at the sort of market intervention the center-hugging Gore has heretofore avoided...