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...Midway through the film, Gore talks about his strained relationship with politics. "I'm a lot more comfortable with the idea of rolling up my sleeves and making the system work than I am with campaigning," he says. It's a theme he returned to in his acceptance speech. "I know my own imperfections," he said. "I know I won't always be the most exciting politician. But...I will work for you every day, and I will never let you down." This was more than a dig at Bill Clinton. It was as close as Gore could come...
...reach the top of today's pop charts, you need a bare midriff, jailbaiting lyrics or, failing that, you could have Don Ho for a dad. HOKU, who used to sing Tiny Bubbles onstage with her papa Don as a toddler, is now a 19-year-old bombshell midway through her first national tour of the U.S., promoting her hit single, Another Dumb Blonde. The girl-empowerment anthem contains such coming-of-age epiphanies as "Lately I've just come to find/That you're not really interested/In my heart or mind." A devout Christian and onetime Tommy Hilfiger model, Hoku...
...follows it (not created by the P&P guys), is gutsier and more promising. It's also about a life change: this time a married undercover L.A. cop becomes a widowed small-town sheriff. Like The War Next Door, it's plenty weird. The pilot's best joke comes midway through, when the main character says he's noticed that his son has changed since his mother died--and the camera pans to show that the kid is now played by a new actor. It's got some smart jokes and sharp ideas, but, again, this is a half-hour...
Gore couldn't afford to wait. He was midway through the week that was supposed to start turning his campaign around--a week featuring a new "prosperity-and-progress" message, a new New Gore (this one less of an attack dog than the old New Gore) and a new goody bag of policies designed to seize the upper hand from George W. Bush. It had been an encouraging week so far--the press coverage respectable, the stump speech more effective and the rally at the airport near Scranton, Pa., so big and noisy it reminded Gore of the glory days...
...sign that things would be different came Nov. 12 against Dartmouth when A.J. Mleczko '97-'99 and Claudia Asano '99, the team's former co-captains, came to Bright Hockey Center to unveil the national championship banner. Dartmouth led the entire game until junior Angie Francisco got the equalizer midway through the third period and it looked like the Crimson, who won every overtime game in 1998-99, had things under control. But Jen Wiehn scored the game-winner for Dartmouth to upset the Crimson in its home opener...