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...natural that Gore would propose people who were well known to him. Clinton named as director Johnny Hayes, who has worked as a principal fund raiser of every Gore campaign since he entered politics--including the current one. The President named as chairman Craven Crowell, an old pal of Gore's from his newspaper days and a top aide to Gore's ally Jim Sasser, a former Democratic Senator from Tennessee. (The third board member, a Kentucky Republican, was in mid-term...
Putin, for his part, did his best to underscore his man-of-action hawkish image Thursday by going down in a submarine to take part in missile test-firings in the Arctic. Unlike Boris Yeltsin, who tried to project himself as a cantankerous but ultimately cuddly pal of the West, Putin has unashamedly staked out nationalist credentials, making it clear that no matter how economically interdependent it becomes with the West, Russia's national interest is primary and will be aggressively defended. The Council of Europe vote is part of a wider effort to apply international human rights standards...
...Championship Game. "And who knows?" I added. "They could certainly win. It's March Madness. Anything could happen." It could, and it did. If the guy at Radio Shack even paid attention to my prediction, he'd be cursing the basketball gods, because his high school pal's team got bounced in the second round. By Gonzaga. And I still don't know where Gonzaga...
...feeling there was something different about Google when not one, not two, but three different friends recommended it to me. "It's quick, and it gives you what you need," said my pal Maryanne. "It doesn't give you a bunch of garbage," seconded Unmesh, who was tired of wading through irrelevant listings on other search sites. Even better, the buzz was backed up with awards from computer trades like PC Magazine, Yahoo!, Internet Life...
...week long in New York, finally garnering some headlines. For his pains, Bradley shaved 10 points off Gore's lead in the state over the weekend, but still trails by a 30 percent margin in the Zogby daily tracking poll. That's a gap that even Bradley's pal Michael Jordan would be unable to jump, and, in that light, MSNBC reported Monday that aides said the ex-senator was already planning his concession speech. At this point, it seems all he can hope for is to deliver it with better news than anyone expected...