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That fight is months away. "There will be plenty of chances to return to it before people go to the polls," Gore said last week, relaxing in a wicker armchair on the sunny wraparound porch of his official residence. "People like this prosperity and progress," he said, savoring the moment--and hoping the rest of us will...
...occasionally disappearing in his pickup truck. The lot around the gray mobile home he kept on a hilltop in the east Kansas town of Olathe is well trimmed, with a weathered figurine of the Virgin Mary set on the lawn and a grill on the back porch. Most of his neighbors couldn't recall ever seeing him, but a 13-year-old girl walking near his home last week said she knew the burly 56-year-old as someone to avoid. "He said things to girls in the neighborhood. I thought that was creepy, considering he's married...
...might seem fanciful, but for Park, who was raised in rural Lancashire, Chicken Run comes close to a childhood memoir. "My family had chickens," he says, "just as pets. They used to come into the porch and eat the food, like a dog really. Or they'd come in the house and steal things. We couldn't bear to eat them; they were characters. Then when I was 16 or 17, I had a summer job at a chicken-packing factory; we had to fold up plucked chickens and pack them in cellophane trays. I also did a day working...
...focus of his campaign to better remind people of the near-eight bountiful years he has presided in the White House with Bill Clinton. At the end of this busy week, Gore sat down with with TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty, lounging on a wicker chair on the wraparound porch of the VP's official residence in Washington. Birds chirping. Dog Daisy at his feet. He was very relaxed, wearing a loose tan sport shirt, khakis, battered deck shoes...
...19th century, many presidential candidates thought it unseemly to do actual campaigning for the office. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Ill., and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. This is a tradition that cries out for reinstatement. Let Al Gore and George W. Bush go home and remain there in decorous silence until November...