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...middle-class tax cut - to focus on deficit reduction. The move helped reduce interest rates and turn the recovery into a boom. "Al showed a decisiveness and a willingness to make tough choices," says Will Marshall, president of the Progressive Policy Institute, the New Democrat's think tank, who rejects the notion that Gore has left the moderate tent. "As President, he'd be ready to do it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush and Gore: Do the Labels Fit? | 10/7/2000 | See Source »

...expect anyone from Dawson's Creek to be moonlighting in Girlfight, the latest coming-of-age teenage tale, starring newcomer Michelle Rodriguez. Wearing army fatigues and sweats instead of the requisite cleavage bearing tank top, Rodriguez delivers a mesmerizing and fiery performance, not to mention a mean left-hook. As Diana, a troubled teen from Red Hook, a rough Brooklyn neighborhood, Rodriguez finds her salvation in the predominantly male world of amateur boxing. Capitalizing on this world of precise grace and raw aggression, Director Karyn Kusama throws sexual stereotypes and cinematic genres into the ring, creating a match...

Author: By Carlene Macmillan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Girlfight: Gender-Blind Boxing | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

Anyone who has paid for a tank of home heating oil recently knows the problem is real. Heating oil now costs 67% more than it did a year ago; depleted inventories and high worldwide demand, along with forecasts of a colder than average winter, are expected to boost prices even higher. Last week 111 members of Congress--Democrats and Republicans, mostly from the Northeast and the Midwest--sent a letter to Clinton asking him to deploy the SPR. To dramatize the problem Friday, Gore held an event in Pittsburgh that featured a number of people battered by rising oil prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Who's Right About Oil? | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...claim for the support of the people is anything more than rhetoric, it can be a gutsy one. Because these people are not those suburban independent voters, whom the campaigns are wooing somewhere between the private school door, the movie theater, and the gas tank of the SUV. These people are more likely to be the ones pumping that gas, taking the ticket, or mopping the schoolroom floor...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Getting the Vote of the People | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

...Gore for fishing around too much in the wardrobe closet, but as he tweaked his own uniform he was also copying Gore in other ways, by showing himself to be a tireless advocate for the working man. Describing the tax advantages that his plan would bring to the Tank family sitting in the front row, Bush grew increasingly animated. "When you hear the talk about the rich and the powerful, I want you all to remember the Tanks," he said before announcing the roughly $1,800 more dollars the family would reap under his plan. "Now you tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Fall TV Preview | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

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