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...reaction strikes some as hypocritical. "There's a lot of lip service being given in France to the principle that an ally would spy on an ally," says TIME Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton, "but since all these countries are doing it, the only thing that's different here is the magnitude of America's satellite network." But the simple fact that the Parliament was willing to accept the report - prompting U.S.-fearing headlines across the continent - highlights a growing unease with American dominance of the technology sector. "The English-speaking world is seen through French eyes...
...that racial profiling was invented in New Jersey, the state Bradley represented in the Senate for 18 years, and when Bradley appeared to question the intellect of black leaders. In response to a question about Gore's character, Bradley said that Gore was just using the event to pay lip service to minorities, but actually had a "conservative Democrat" voting record as a congressman and senator. When Gore fired back that he's been endorsed by many prominent blacks, including most of the Congressional Black Caucus, Bradley drew loud boos by responding that those leaders didn't know Gore...
...into the violence and stupidity, the sleaze and failure, the narcissism and paranoia. It all comes back: riots at the gas pumps, terrorists on every flight, double-digit inflation, the last ignominious helicopters out of Saigon, the explosion of crime, the lousy cars from Detroit, Nixon's sweating upper lip as he says good-bye, the Club of Rome's gaudy apocalypse, the massive dumbing down of everything, and the perfect denouement - the Ayatollah and the hostage crisis...
...Five. He'll tell you. And he'll say it was one of the biggest regrets in his entire life. Ask him about his association with the rich and powerful, and he will not deny it. Ask George Bush about photos where he has white stuff on his upper lip, and he'll claim it's a milk mustache...
...Gore has his devil of weirdness, this peculiarly uncomfortable internal something that reminds one, at odd moments, of a shinier, buffed-up version of Richard Nixon and his sweating upper lip and the disconnect between his words and his flashing, inappropriate smile...