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...Republicans were speechless at the gift: If Bush was working mightily to pitch his tent squarely in the center of the playing field, it sure helped him that Gore seemed to be laying down his weapons. Here's what he wasn't saying very loudly: Care about child poverty? It's the lowest in 20 years. Unemployment? Lowest since 1969. Don't like Big Government? It's smaller as a percentage of the GNP than at any time since 1965. Middle-class tax cuts? Clinton put through the largest of those in 11 years...
...media hospitality tent is being run by local icon Anheuser Busch and comes complete with ping-pong and hockey tables, although surprisingly (this being St. Louis), the bar isn't yet serving at 9 a.m. Some Gore staffers ping and pong for a bit, then head out. All part of a subdued, but still business-as-usual, walkup to the debate...
...Greatest Show on Earth has come to Glasgow. As the sun sets in the Scottish sky, some 8,000 concertgoers gather under a huge blue tent tipped with flashing red lights. Suddenly, the lights go down and a roar goes up. The British rock quintet Radiohead has taken the stage. Unsatisfied with traditional venues and their corporate-logo-covered interiors, the band is touring Europe with a portable circus-like tent. Singer Thom Yorke introduces each number with curt, dry wit; the music is forceful and precise, combining punkish attitude, tasteful art-rock grandeur and judicious electronic sampling. Jonny Greenwood...
...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...
...then obliterate it. His comedy depends on lulling you into a comfort zone and then yanking you out of it. And it doesn't hurt that Kate Hudson has Goldie Hawn's sexual energy... My favorite newspaper headline in the past week: "Prince William in Chile, Sleeping in Tent"... Ok, so I really need help with my Ec 10 problem sets. Any freshmen want to help a poor old senior? You provide the graphs, I'll tell you how to beat the housing lottery... I've been asked at least 5000 times this week, "Well, What _Would_ Harry Potter...