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...remains something of an X factor. As a social conservative, Buchanan could siphon off twice as many votes from a Republican candidate than from a Democrat, according to a poll conducted by GOP consultant Frank Luntz. Republicans are painfully aware of this threat, says TIME Washington deputy bureau chief Matthew Cooper. ?As Jay [Carney, TIME's Washington correspondent] discovered, the Bush people have launched a charm offensive to keep Buchanan from bolting,? says Cooper. But loyal Dems shouldn?t mail their Buchanan campaign contributions just yet, Democratic strategist James Carville told TIME ? Buchanan could steal votes away from the Democratic...
Some students, however, were not so optimisticabout the newsgroup's effectiveness. "I probablywouldn't use it. There are enough newsgroups,"Matthew J. Waterbury '97 said
...MATTHEW COOPER, who joined TIME only last month, has already had the unusual experience of being able to admire his photo in the magazine: last year, while he was still a national correspondent at Newsweek, he made our pages after winning a contest that crowned him Washington's Funniest Celebrity. The joke's on the Capitol, because his new job is working as TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. Cooper will help shape coverage of the 2000 campaign while continuing to write about politics. Fortunately, this will not require complete sobriety. As demonstrated by his piece on George Bush...
...artists under 40 have the cult cachet of Matthew Barney. Part performance art, part sculpture, part film, his mandarin works are outrageous spectacles of heavy makeup and dreamworld metamorphosis. Barney, 32, has appeared before his camera as a red-haired ram in a morning coat; as a satyr squirming in the backseat of a stretch limousine; as a naked and chained Houdini in Budapest, throwing himself into the Danube while Ursula Andress, as the weeping "Queen of Chain," looks...
Surprisingly, most of his targets agree with Bruer--to a point. "It's quite true," says Dr. Charles Nelson, a neuroscientist at the University of Minnesota, "that there aren't any studies looking at brain development in young children." And Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, an educational organization whose advice-laden website is a target of Bruer's ire, acknowledges that "there have been some who have stretched the science...