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QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'm not going to be a lockstep voter with Newt or anyone else...
Despite his youth, Clark, 25, is a confident liberal with plenty of ideas to help the working class make a living wage and get quality benefits. He also says he will protect the district's small farmers, charging incumbent Steve Buyer with being a one-issue military congressman in lockstep with Newt Gingrich. Clark may be a long shot in this G.O.P. district--but he can run seven more times before...
Chronister has tried to make the best of a bad situation--a powerful opponent--by charging Bill Goodling with ignoring his district while walking in legislative lockstep with Newt Gingrich. Chronister, who resigned his policy-analyst post at the National Office on Drug Policy to run for Congress, wants to reduce government spending and balance the budget, but also wants strong labor laws and the protection of Head Start, student-loan, and the Safe and Drug-Free Schools programs...
Even the unofficial anthem of the convention, the cheery Latin dance hit Macarena, cited by Gore and mimed by Hillary Rodham Clinton and thousands of delegates, held a hidden message. The song (which is performed in the kind of lockstep the party wanted from its delegates) is an ode to seduction. "Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Macarena," goes the chorus in Spanish. Translation: "Give your body joy, Macarena...
...giddiest economic bubble, counting their stock options and cutting deals with everyone from telephone companies to Hollywood. Virtually the entire data-intensive world--which is to say, virtually the entire world--has concluded that the Web is the future of communications, and is now retooling to stay in lockstep with Netscape (and vice versa: Netscape perpetually updates its browser to accommodate new Web applications). "The list of businesses being transformed," says Clark, includes "broadcasting, publishing, software, finance, shopping, entertainment services, consumer electronics...It's a massive, massive change. We just happened to see it first and set the commercial agenda...