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...part, Lazio will be forced to reckon with his image as a lightweight. Interloper or not, Clinton is a formidable, occasionally forbidding public speaker, and her presence alone suggests a certain degree of seriousness. Not so Lazio - except among his die-hard supporters, the baby-faced congressman is not known for doing much other than running against Clinton. And while that characteristic is apparently compelling enough on its own to attract hefty contributions from swarms of anti-Clintonites, it's not enough to win the election...
...from Bush in many national and statewide polls, in part because Gore has been taking the hatchet to Bush's policies--calling his tax cut irresponsible, scolding him for not yet offering a plan to give a prescription-drugs benefit to seniors, reviving the message that Bush is too lightweight for the job. The Republican candidate needs to look serious, fast--and it's the shop's job to help him do it. The next big test: Bush's speech unveiling his prescription-drugs plan, set for this week...
...anyone forced to debate against wonkish Al Gore, but that won't help Bush beat the veep. Swing voters who're not yet convinced to vote for Bush aren't worried about his affability; they want to see him lay to rest the impression that he may be a lightweight not equal to the task. Forewarning voters that he expects to struggle in debates against the vice president may send the wrong message to the unconvinced...
...know that people have been concerned with your focus on attacking Bush instead of laying a foundation of ideas for your campaign. But remember, to dismiss the other candidate as an intellectual lightweight is not an attack. It's a dismissal. And the sooner you get Bush out of the spotlight with an aristocratic wave of your hand (come on, we both know it's in the blood) the sooner you can get the voters to start focusing on your issues, like the environment or the Internet or whatever (Just a tip: People are generally more concerned about things like...
What has given an old technology a new boost is lightweight materials like foamed carbon fibers, similar to those used in the Brietling Orbiter 3, the balloon that Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones used in last year's record-setting flight around the world. Piccard is the grandson of Auguste Piccard, the famed physicist and part-time aviator who in 1932 became the first man to reach the stratosphere in a balloon. In 1988 an engineer named Klaus Hagenlocher began poring through the Zeppelin archives and persuaded the company's CEO, Friedrichshafen Mayor Bernd Wiedmann, to resurrect the airship...