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...away at the veep's lead at the eleventh hour in New Hampshire, right after he adopted a gloves-off stance, and a double-digit lead in the polls dissolved into a slim five-point win. And the ex-senator wasted no time building on the strength of his newfound nastiness. Tuesday night, as the first exit polls revealed that the race was neck-and-neck, Bradley - after shunning Gore's similar challenge earlier - announced he wanted to debate Gore once a week for the rest of the campaign season...
Writing this column I have developed a newfound respect for former New York Times columnist A. M. Rosenthal, whose final column before he was forced into retirement was an incoherent jumble of mostly unrelated sentence fragments. This is my last column. But it's mostly complete sentences...
...little Jake the new Dreamcast game console will assure that classmates are eager to come over for play dates, or that outfitting teenaged Tammy in the fashions favored by her wealthiest classmates will win her acceptance into their clique. Others, especially among busy two-career couples, try to substitute newfound money for their still scarce time. Some executive dads think they can more easily afford to hire junior a private pitching coach than make time for an early evening game of catch...
...fingerprint all Indians, Gandhi countered with a new idea--"passive resistance," securing political rights through personal suffering and the power of truth and love. "Indians," he wrote, "will stagger humanity without shedding a drop of blood." He failed to provoke legal changes, and Indians gained little more than a newfound self-respect. But Gandhi understood the universal application of his crusade. Even his principal adversary, the Afrikaner leader Jan Smuts, recognized the power of his idea: "Men like him redeem us from a sense of commonplace and futility...
...they ever think it's about him, he's dead." That day hasn't come yet: no one's polled his popularity publicly since October when it sank to the low 40s from a phenomenal perch near 70. But Minnesota pols think he's coming back, and his newfound reticence may have something to do with it. "I'm still myself...but I find myself not giving opinions on things that have nothing to do with government," he says...