Word: miche
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...George W. Bush and Al Gore, who've spent the last few days running themselves into the campaign trail. Monday, both candidates traveled thousands of miles, kissed countless babies and stumped until their throats were raw. The strain was showing on both men; at a Sunday rally in Dearborn, Mich., Gore twice called Bruce Hornsby, the evening's entertainment, Rogers Hornsby, who as we all know was in fact the Rajah, the fabulous (and deceased) second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals during the '20s. Meanwhile Bush provided his usual quota of flubs, calling the inheritance tax the "death penalty...
...tweaking both Gore and President Clinton with rallies in their home states. Gore, who was on the road until early Tuesday morning, is also taking a break at home in Carthage, Tenn. The vice president worked a 30-hour day Monday, flying between Iowa, St. Louis and Flint, Mich. before arriving in Florida...
...Quoth the Times: "By the time he arrived this evening in Flint, Mich., Mr. Gore was punchy from exhaustion, his face puffy and pink, with rivulets of sweat meandering down his cheek. He sucked on lozenges as he spoke, but they did little to soothe his hoarseness." Gore also thanked "Rogers Hornsby" and his band for warming up the crowd before a Dearborn rally...
With older children, the task becomes trying to maintain some semblance of normal mother-child relations. In Plymouth, Mich., the Children's Visitation Program runs parenting-skills classes at the women's prison to help moms and their kids reconnect. "A lot of [the children] are very angry," says director Florida Andrews. "They've been stigmatized because their mothers are locked up." Girl Scouts Beyond Bars buses kids to prisons once a month, where the scouts hold troop meetings with their incarcerated mothers. Tanyall Law, 15, and her two sisters, members of the Girl Scouts Rolling Hills council...
...That said, living in a swing state became exhausting in the last days of the campaign. Just ask Dave Shand, 45, of Saline, Mich., who was constantly pestered by pollsters, like the one he told he was a registered voter planning to go Republican. Shand is a left-leaning Canadian citizen. "You know that 3 percent-to-4 percent margin of error?" he says. "That...