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Intuition told me there had to be such a place. It sits along Highway 178 near Rocky Bottom, just shy of the North Carolina border. The Roadkill Grill is an outdoor barbecue pit on the property of Bob's Place, a rustic beer tavern where the Confederate flag flies proud and the "Hillbilly Poem" is stapled to an outside wall. It reads, "We're noted for our hard times and God's great creation. We're the people of the hillbilly nation." The hillbillies, it turns out, liked Bush, as did plenty of God-fearing family folk, party loyalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Diary: A Visit To Bush Country | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Yodeler's perch 27. 30-Across's "__ right-wing conspiracy" 28. "Early __ ads" (soft-money purchases) 29. Go hungry 30. Ex-candidate Forbes campaign manager Bill Dal __ 31. Made "it" 32. High-tech firm Lucent has agreed to buy 33. Execute perfectly 35. Candidate who dove into a mosh pit 38. Ancient Iranian 41. Bush supporter __ Bailey Hutchison 42. Layoff, to a govt. worker 43. __, amas, amat 44. All Things Considered network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Feb. 28, 2000 | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

What would you pay to party with SHARON STONE at Spago? Or sit with BILL CLINTON as his party names a successor? The bidding begins at $100,000 for premier perks at August's Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, marketed as a mosh pit of star power--show biz and political. House and Senate campaign committees have already emptied so many deep pockets for VIP packages that party chairman ED RENDELL is scrambling to control what bennies are left. Last month he wrote letters begging the heads of the legislative groups, PLEASE STOP. Rendell told TIME he hoped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conventional Politics | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...Abercrombie models as you pass through the Square on your way to practice. He watches you picking your wedgie slyly as you slip out of Out-of-Town News. When you sneak out for a Store-24 run at 3 a.m., he knows. Is he hiding among the pit kids? Nope-heis sitting at his computer, looking at you via the ithe Official Dewey, Cheetham and Howe Hahvahd Squayah Web Cam,i located at http://cartalk.engine.trippy.net/ cartalk/deweycam5.htm...

Author: By K.l. Rakowski, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Panopticon, For Real! | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...attack his "friend John"--and kept a wary distance from the traveling press corps. Not anymore. As he unveiled his new-look campaign in South Carolina last week, including Oprah-style sessions with citizens and banners heralding him as A REFORMER WITH RESULTS, Bush tore into McCain like a pit bull let loose in a slaughterhouse. "John" was out. "Chairman McCain," meant to remind voters that McCain presides over the Senate's Commerce Committee, was in. So was schmoozing with journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: My Jog with George | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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