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...find spots in his administration. He said he wasn't going to "tear down" his opponent, but his campaign literature told voters that "McCain says one thing but does another," and it distorted many of McCain's positions--charging, for example, that McCain wants to remove the pro-life plank from the G.O.P platform. That isn't true, and among religious conservatives, it was a napalm blast at McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Read My Knuckles | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...next president may have the power to change the composition of the Supreme Court into a group with the numbers to overturn Roe v. Wade. Candidate Bush's clarification of his anti-abortion stance last week was unsurprising but also indicative of the strength of that plank of the Republican platform. As we mark the 27th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the possible abandonment of a woman's right to choose is a thought scary enough to make you board the next Democratic campaign bus to New Hampshire...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Notes from Underground | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

...Frank hungry? He licks a newspaper for the residual grease of the chips it held. Is he sopping? He steps in more puddles than Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain. (Ten years the family rented the same flooded ground floor, and no one thought to lay a plank from the doorway to the stairs.) The three boys playing Frank at 7, 11 and 15 are fine. They create a collective portrait of a child tough enough to survive a horrendous youth and a man brave enough to recall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Angela's Ashes | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Driskell says she is sticking to the community-building proposals that earned her and her presidential running mate, T. Christopher King '01, second place in last year's elections. The pair has also added a plank of council reform to their platform...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos and Andrew S. Holbrook, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Profile of Driskell-Burton | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Bush's success in the field of education is a challenge to the Democratic candidates. While Gore has made education a center plank in his platform, he does not have the hands-on experience in turning around a failing educational system that Bush can claim. And even though Bush has inherited and adopted traditionally Democratic attitudes towards education, he has been willing to take even more radical steps for improvement. Bush's radical methods have also had detractors; unfortunately, both Democratic candidates have tiptoed around the issue of testing in order to improve performance...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Democrats Must Catch up to Bush on Education | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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