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...Virginia, the firm helped craft a banner ad on various websites that invited users to print out a copy of the petition they had to sign. Crude for now, the technology nevertheless offers more precision than TV ads, and in the future may be able to help candidates pitch their Social Security message to seniors or their health-care cures to soccer moms...
...smaller guy, a smaller guy all around," says someone close to Bradley. "Gore leapt at the vice presidency, a job Bill would never have taken, because [Gore]'s devoted to furthering his career over all else." And last fall, when Gore saw that Bradley's high-minded pitch was working in New Hampshire, he stole it and started talking about "elevating our democracy" by running "a different kind of campaign"--all Bradley-speak. Sometimes Bradley can't stand...
...breakup of their best friends, a couple are forced to examine their own comfortable marriage. But in pondering issues of intimacy, passion and the pleasures and dolors of conjugal routine, Margulies writes about relationships with such intelligence and spiky humor that his comedy-drama--acted and directed with perfect pitch--becomes something quite wonderful...
...votes to block legislation, but the vote was good enough to encourage communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov to run for President again next June. This is exactly what the Kremlin wants. Kremlin controllers know that Zyuganov, wooden and thin-skinned, is a weak campaigner, and they will be able to pitch the contest as a race between the old and the new. The big loser in the election, however, is Primakov. Few now remember his announcement on the eve of the election that he would run for President. Primakov's bloc will end up with a respectable number of Duma seats...
...perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter...