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...Minnesota laboratory awhile, and so he is looking for a front man. His initial candidate for the 2000 nod was former Connecticut senator and governor Lowell P. Weicker, a thoughtful type who was the kind of maverick, reformist governor Ventura tries to be (except that Weicker is several dollars short on charisma). Weicker uses the R-word a lot, and means it; as a liberal Northeast Republican, he is a conservatives' answer to Bill Bradley (maybe he would have really caught on had he been better at basketball...). More recently, Ventura has been prodding New York real estate mogul...
Still, on the first day of school at Coliseum Street Elementary in central Los Angeles last week, Bush's insistence that "no child should be left behind" seems to miss a larger point. Like many other poor urban schools, Coliseum is chronically short of textbooks, computers and supplies, not to mention experienced teachers. Many such schools spend less per pupil than schools in surrounding suburbs despite having more high-need kids. Bush knows this is wrong: he waged a worthy but losing fight in Texas to rejigger school funding in 1997. Thus far he's been mum about such injustice...
Sega's revival could be cut short if Sony's proposed new machine lives up to advance word. Sony says it will be powered by a revolutionary new chip called the "emotion engine" that will enable it to render lifelike images while simultaneously handling interactive audio and network play. Scheduled to debut in Japan in March 2000 and in North America late next year, it will be Internet-ready (like Dreamcast), capable of running current-generation PlayStation software (key to maintaining a loyal fan base) and equipped with enough ports to make it the electronic centerpiece of the future networked...
...Adolescence is a great period of time to write about," says Jason Katims, once a writer for MSCL and creator of the acclaimed but short-lived romantic drama Relativity, whose brooding alien-human love story Roswell follows three teenage aliens as they evade discovery and seek their origins. "It's where so much of you is formed and the themes that will follow you your whole adult life are born." And doing a show about it is a great means of getting noticed. TV has fed the teen beast before, but these programs now enjoy cultural prominence, with Buffy...
...Clinton, of course, has been through it all before, from Foster and Travelgate to Whitewater and you-know-what, invoking executive privilege all the while. Even when the effort was doomed, when Monica hardly qualified as national security, Clinton used the privilege successfully to stall for time. Time is short now; if the Republicans have recovered their appetite for scandal, they?re unlikely to nail the White House?s elusive current occupant. And there's another thing to think about: the risk of alienating an electorate sated with scandal and irritated by endless investigations...