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...infamous Internet boast and Buddhist-temple visit. The goal of the ad: to discredit Gore's policy attacks before he makes them, by undermining his credibility with voters. Every time Gore blasts Bush's policies, Bush wants to be able to say, "There he goes again," and have voters nod in agreement. But even as the campaign plays the character card, Bolten must protect his candidate's weak flank. Which is why the prescription-drugs speech is so important. Gore has experience on the issue going all the way back to his House days, and Bush is far less comfortable...
...Gore winnowed his list of prospective running mates last month, at least one prominent Democrat was less than thrilled with the idea that Joe Lieberman might get the nod. Bill Clinton praised the choice after it was made, but before the fact, he railed privately about how much Lieberman's latest book, In Praise of Public Life, ticked him off. ("The Clinton-Lewinsky saga," Lieberman writes, "is the most vivid example we have of the virus of lost standards.") Clinton told friends he was sick and tired of Lieberman's sanctimony. The Senator's famous 1998 speech condemning Clinton...
...movement forged by Ross Perot, which garnered nearly a fifth of the vote in 1992, is in chaos. At its convention last week in Long Beach, Calif., there were shoving matches and a major split. One group chose former G.O.P. candidate Pat Buchanan, while a smaller group gave its nod to John Hagelin, physicist and transcendental-meditation advocate. (One sign at the convention: NOMINATE JIMMY CARTER TO UNITE THE REFORM PARTY.) Each claims the nomination and $12.5 million in federal funds, which leads to one question: After the schism, what happens to the money...
...morality in their favor like a Carnegie Deli sandwich. Their former boss (Moffat) is a Harvard-accented, corrupt and racist toff who would twirl his mustache if he had one. "Only a child," he purrs, "would think that the world doesn't work with a wink and a nod and a handshake between old pals smoking Cohibas." His grandson and the renegades' leader, Ditto (George Newbern), is Bull's Luke Skywalker, out to escape Grandpa's musty clutches. In the year's most cornball TV speech outside a convention, he urges his Rolex rebels to "try investing in yourself...
...rare for a corporate chieftain to earn a place on a national ticket. And Cheney's years as head of an industrial giant that extracts natural resources and operates in unstable and undemocratic places would seem an inviting target. Right after George W. Bush gave Cheney the vice-presidential nod, traditionally Democratic supporters ranging from environmentalists to labor unions to plaintiffs' lawyers were sharpening their knives. "Cheney's record at the company is not well known but will be scrutinized very closely," predicted former Congressman Lee Hamilton, a moderate Democrat. "Politically, this becomes a very important matter...