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...live convention broadcasts "got better ratings than [popular video show] Alternative Nation." It's important too to play off the new ways young people get their information. "If you watch Letterman or Leno, you're getting motivated to find out more," says Woodhull, "or you won't get the punch lines." And Leno knows to "never assume an audience knows who people are." Instead of just saying, "And Warren Christopher said," Leno explains, "I'll say, 'Warren Christopher, the Secretary of State--you know, the guy who looks like Dracula...
Faced with elimination, however, the hitters responded, scoring 14 runs in game five and 15 in game seven. Surprisingly, it was not the Braves "big boppers" who contributed most of the punch. Scrawny second baseman Mark Lemke continued to raise his level of play in the post season, coming through with a number of big hits. Catcher Javy Lopez also stepped up throughout the series, leading the Braves in RBIs. Even the pitchers got into the act. Tom Glavine, one of the game's best hitting pitchers, delivered a crushing a three-run triple in the first inning of last...
Time after time, Clinton failed to give the compelling moral arguments behind his policies, but Dole never delivered the knockout punch. Unless I missed something last night, come November 5th, Bob Dole will still be just...
Last week's presidential and vice presidential debates introduced the nation to a new phenomenon in national politics. Instead of trying to score a knock-out punch with a witty insult or a derogatory swipe at a rival's character, the candidates are now attempting to appear as amicable as possible. They insist that they are actually good friends and that the differences between them are purely ideological, not personal...
...Against the Machine marry their music to radical politics. The band's sound is terrifically assaultive: on its most recent album, Evil Empire, the songs have the crunch and grind of metal with a bit of the energetic bounce of hip-hop. The band's lyrics also pack a punch: the new single, People of the Sun, is an attack on American foreign policy toward the anti-government Zapatista rebels in Chiapas, Mexico (Morello charges that the U.S. is supporting an oppressive Mexican government when it should be siding with the rebels...