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...USAT loves military angle, with sidebars aplenty, but gives equal time to taxes; Judy Keen's with Bush on explaining himself. Like WP, she finds it an "unusual admission to reporters." Or spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics Junkie | 8/23/2000 | See Source »

...Karenna who makes herself most available to the press. She has taken on a public role, heading Gorenet, an effort to reach young voters, and speaking on behalf of her father, offering up anecdotes of Al the Dad to humanize him. She is an expert at casting new spin on his political vulnerabilities. Asked on television what was the best advice her father ever gave her, she says her father taught her to stick by a friend in trouble--a tale that adds a family-values patina to Gore's stand by a President in big trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Daughter Also Rises | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Highway I-75 for the 2-hr. drive from Coral Gables to Naples, Fla. But on the way, according to Mabel and her attorney, the tread tore loose--"like peeling a banana," says Mabel--from one of the Explorer's rear Firestone tires, causing the sport-utility vehicle to spin out of control, slam into a guardrail and flip over. The accident badly injured Valdes and her family and left her grandmother dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Firestone's Tire Crisis | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...Concern at Wednesday night's party centered around actor Michael J. Fox, who had to step down from his hit show "Spin City" to battle Parkinson's. He spent much of the event talking quietly with Reeve and other fund-raisers. Actor Michael Douglas, proud new papa of a baby boy (sporting the famous Douglas dimple), hasn't been much in evidence at the convention, preferring to stay home with actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, but he made sure he was at the party, handing out Dunhill cigars to one and all. Concerned about Fox, who appeared noticeably tired all evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Party Favors: Star Power to the People | 8/18/2000 | See Source »

...negative spin on the prospects of rescuing the crew suggests the Russian navy has learned the wiles of media management. To be sure, plenty can go wrong in a complex mission to establish an air link and an escape route from the vessel at a depth of 350 feet in Arctic waters. But diminishing the prospects for their survival means the news can't get any worse, only better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Russia's Nukes, Sunken Sub Just Tip of the Iceberg | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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