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...gradually moving up the economic ladder to the more affluent suburbanites Gore needs to pull way ahead. It was all humming along so smoothly that the man himself seemed transformed. He spent Labor Day in a round-the-clock workathon, bonding with his buddy Joe, changing outfits like Diana Ross, but sticking to his message of targeted tax cuts, Medicare drug benefits and some bright new strands for the safety net. "We knew that when it came time to engage, good things would happen," says a Gore adviser, "that we would go to terrain very favorable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: How Bush Lost His Edge | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...Ross Perot was included in the 1992 debates and his participation contributed to high voter turnout and won him some 20 percent of the popular vote. Despite the fact that one in five voters supported Perot in 1992, the Commission kept him out of the 1996 debates--he did not even win a tenth of the popular vote that year. Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura was polling around 8 percent before his state's televised debate--it was his performance in that debate which helped him win the election, gaining around a third of the popular vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...City may end up inspiring more female foursomes on TV than women's bobsledding. Here, single lawyer Joan (Tracee Ellis Ross, Diana's daughter) plays straight woman to three irritating cliches--a gold digger, a p.c. student and a sassy homegirl. The dialogue has moments ("We subscribe to free love; Joan subscribes to Essence"), but it's a mystery why these four ever became pals. Too bad, because Ross has an appealingly nervous edge. Like unlucky-at-love Joan, she's talented, she's pretty--and she could do much, much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girlfriends, UPN, Mondays, 9:30 p.m. E.T. | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...took State Department negotiator Dennis Ross several weeks to heal that personal rift, but it hadn't been easy. Feeling like a parent dealing with two angry children locked in their rooms, Ross abruptly left Jerusalem at one point to force Arafat and Barak to speak to each other instead of conveying messages through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arafat and Barak: Not a Marriage Made in Heaven | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...DOUGLAS ROSS, Big Brother producer: "When it comes to flying, I am happy to yield my privacy to the greater concern of my safety. Americans are too hung up about their bodies anyway. Why care if some guy who sees the outlines of thousands of genitalia a day sees ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting a Bum Deal? | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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