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Like George W. Bush, Ashcroft is running a race based largely on character. The son of an Assemblies of God minister, Ashcroft, who doesn't drink, has been known for his religiosity. His ads tout his "Missouri Values"--a line that Carnahan and most observers consider an implicit dig lampooning the 66-year-old Governor as an out-of-touch liberal who is close to Bill Clinton. "It really is a perversion," Carnahan told TIME. For his part, Ashcroft, 58, says the line isn't a jab at Carnahan; but when asked by TIME, he won't say whether Carnahan...
...thoughtfulness and rectitude bolsters Gore in much the same way Gore bolstered Clinton eight years ago, before two terms alongside the President tarnished his shield. Lieberman's past and present denunciations of Clinton's "immoral" behavior help insulate Gore from the country's disgust with Clinton ethics. (The implicit argument: Lieberman said what Gore felt but as Vice President could not permit himself to say.) The fact that Lieberman is the first Jew on a major party ticket makes Gore's choice historic, courageous and potentially transformative, although it was hard not to feel that Gore congratulated himself...
Perhaps he is merely acting out the implicit logic of the 1933 film of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man, of which Paul Verhoeven's new movie is an entirely unacknowledged remake. Both Caine and Claude Rains' Jack Griffin find it easier to attain the ectoplasmic state than to return from it; both become increasingly megalomaniac as a result of the scientific process they embrace. The big difference between the two pictures is attitude. James Whale, who directed the first movie, made a kind of moral comedy of the situation--lots of befuddled English country types doing dialect jokes--but with...
...careful "Renewing America's Purpose. Together." The real leitmotif--pushed by the campaign for many weeks--is much edgier: "George Bush Is a Different Kind of Republican." Mimicking almost exactly the language Bill Clinton used to stiff-arm his party's liberals eight years ago, it is an implicit sniff at the old kind of Republicans who will be gathered that week in Philadelphia...
...just what Alan Greenspan wants it to. According to figures released Friday, personal spending, the engine of the boom, rose just 0.2 percent in May - the same level as the revised April numbers. Personal income, the engine of personal spending, rose at a slower rate. And the report's implicit price deflator, one of the Fed head's favorite inflation indicators, was unchanged in May for the second straight month. If this keeps up, Greenspan could sit on his hands for the rest of the year...