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...Democrats gathered last month to renominate Clinton and Vice President Al Gore '69, their big tent philosophy showed signs of wear and tear...
Uniting a Big Tent...
...close, having agreed not to ambush her. While many children of the highly placed are attention-mongering monsters or sullen recluses, Chelsea came across during grueling hours of travel as relaxed and friendly, informed without being a smarty-pants, gracious even when sitting cross-legged in a 100[degree] tent for an hour in India with bamboo weavers. She seemed to love her mother, of course, but also to like her, in a way that can't be faked. At Mother Teresa's orphanage, Chelsea picked up a baby and grew alarmed when the little girl started crying. She then...
...success of Walter's page says a lot about how the underground current sweeps material to the top of the Web. The author quietly pitched his home page last September like a tent among the other Prodigy members' sites. Within weeks it was reviewed at some of the Web's most influential sites. Mirsky's Worst of the Web observed, "Sometimes it takes a pitiful life to make a great Web page." The Geek Site of the Day picked it up too, followed by those arbiters of cool, Suck. Soon, thousands of people a week started to swing by. While...
...abortion rights. "We're not afraid of debate," said party chairman Christopher Dodd. One of Clinton's most vocal critics on the welfare issue, Jesse Jackson, said the convention should highlight the unity, not the discord, in the party. "In 1968, when the issue was warfare, the big tent split and we lost," Jackson said. "Now, the issue is welfare, the big tent must not split." Vice President Al Gore already began the effort to ease the fears of liberals about the bill, saying that if Clinton is re-elected, "we will have an opportunity to fix" provisions, such...