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...Michael Dukakis's mechanical reply to a debate question about how he would react to his wife's rape and murder crystallized his reputation as an automaton...
...Stacy, the world champ, had to clear 5.65. She did, on her first try, and won the first ever women's pole vault gold. "I'm a clean athlete and I earned this," Stacy said afterwards, and I thought how sad it was that an athlete needed to react like that...
...will the people of Serbia react? Will they flock to the streets to defend their votes or will they allow Milosevic to cheat them once more? This remains the biggest variable in the Yugoslav political equation. After the opposition failed in several attempts to mount massive protests in the past year, many in Yugoslavia are pessimistic. Some analysts, on the other hand, point out that the Milosevic power structure is much less homogeneous than usually assumed. They assert that the people will not sit calmly in the face of clear electoral fraud and notice that the Serbian pro-democracy movement...
Gore had a similar reason for touting what is by any measure a serious tax cut: he needed to react to Bush. That political reality is apparent to voters, and may be one reason many people aren't tuning into this debate. "He's got to cave in and respond to all of Bush's tax-cut talk," says Howard Richards, 68, a retired real estate broker who turned up last week at a Gore tax event in Florida. Another reason is that Gore knows Democrats argue against tax cuts at their peril. Gore's side "spent 20 years getting...
Jessica: It just doesn't make sense for Bush to react so defensively to Gore's challenges to debate. Bush would be much better off just sitting down with Gore and establishing a time and place. I'm not saying Gore is necessarily right to attack Bush's reticence, but that's not really the point - politically, Gore has scored a few points here: The public has focused on Bush's refusal to commit, and that's only helping to solidify Gore's image as the so-called adult in this race. If Gore can keep the debate pressure...