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...Palm Beach County's unexpectedly robust Buchanan vote was the earliest hint of madness in the post-election haze of November 8. Thousands of voters complained that the ballot's confusing design had led them to punch hole No. 4, for Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster (odd, certainly, for a heavily Jewish community) instead of hole No. 5, for Gore and Joe Lieberman. (The ballot design had been approved by a Democrat, who was trying to enlarge the type for the benefit of those same largely elderly voters...
...terms of shooting percentage, the Crimson fared much better than its Patriot League opponent. Harvard shot a robust 57 percent from the floor in the second half and finished the game with a solid field goal conversion rate of 48 percent...
...stations, radio execs scrambled to put ditto-mouths on the air. Then, like most pop-cultural fashions, this one started to pale. Maybe the talk was too hot (listeners can't stay angry forever). Or political issues lost some urgency in a time when the economy was robust and, for most Americans, the rest of the globe ceased to exist (Bosnia, Belfast, world hunger... yawn). On radio, the sports-talk format took hold; so, late at night, did the extraterrestrial conspiracy theories of Art Bell and his guests. The Radio Right needed a new hook, and a close presidential election...
...immediate payoff, according to many economists, has been a boom in productivity that has raised America's once barely detectable gains in output per hour of work to a robust 5% in 1999. That permitted the economy to grow at an unbelievable 8.3% annual pace in last year's final quarter while inflation stayed comfortably below 3%. "The New Economy," Sinai notes, "creates efficiencies and lowers the cost of everything...
...Where Bush and Gore present a real choice is on the more abstract, but more vital, questions surrounding the nature of American power and how to use it. Gore has outlined a robust foreign policy driven as much by morality as strategic self-interest. "Our national interest should be defined in terms of our values," he says. Gore and his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, have long been among the country's most hawkish Democrats. Both defied their party to support the Gulf War, and both lobbied Clinton for swifter intervention to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. Gore...