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...point was made even more strongly in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty debacle. The Senate's rejection of a treaty signed by the President left in disarray U.S. efforts to curb nuclear proliferation around the world. And it allowed the likes of India and Pakistan to simply shrug and promise to consider adopting the treaty when Washington does...
...Florida drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion...
...obligatory first question to pass Sunday talk-show hosts' lips, but whenever it did, brother Jeb was there to field it with an appropriate verbal shrug. Yes, there were Democratic squawks from the likes of Bob Kerrey and Carl Levin, wondering why a man so audibly enamored of bipartisanship had been so quick to jerk a chin toward the Gore campaign as an orchestrator of the leak. But if the Republicans protested a little too much (Arlen Specter, we're looking at you and your post-election "hunch"), George W. still has the same slender edge in the national polls...
Kilby, now 76 and largely retired, was understandably surprised by the belated honor. "The integrated circuit didn't have much new physics in it," the 6-ft. 6-in., plainspoken inventor said with a shrug to reporters who gathered outside his door. But the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences thought otherwise. Awarding Kilby half the 2000 physics prize (total value: $915,000), it noted that his chip created nothing less than a revolution in solid-state physics, not to mention a $231 billion worldwide industry for the microchips that are the heart of today's electronic wizardry, from computers...
What impresses Gore's strategists as they pore over videos of Bush's previous debates is the Governor's discipline--his ability to stay focused on his message and shrug off an opponent's barbs. But when he needed to, they say, Bush has shown himself capable of going on the attack. "Which George Bush is going to show up--the one who stayed on the high road with Ann Richards or the one who was really low road with John McCain?" says strategist Paul Begala, who is playing Bush in Gore's practice sessions. "I don't have...