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...convention offered a thousand opinions about who Gore is. But his speech suggested a simple one: He's a man who knows that he and the system are flawed but who just might be smart and tough enough to get some things done. Gore came out of his shiny foil wrapper...
...with Bush defending his tax cut as "both responsible and easily affordable in light of federal surplus projections... I've got to do a better job of making it clear." Times does its best to help. WP's Connolly finds Gore at the local swing-state VFW, "telling several thousand veterans that unlike George W. Bush, his commitment to the military began long before the 2000 presidential campaign." Then he went to a union meeting...
...White House," the infidels would be vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that helped a few thousand black kids get an education" but hardly utter "a whimper when it's affirmative action for lobbyists..." He also took them to task for keeping so much wealth on their side of the wall, for building too few schools and too many jails...
...know that feeling you get when you walk into Blockbuster and there are racks and racks of videos but you can't seem to settle on a single one? Multiply that experience a couple thousand times, and you've got a fairly accurate picture of music on the Internet. A lot of musical acts are concerned about how they'll make money in the Age of the Download. But there's another question that merits attention--one of particular importance to consumers. With hundreds of thousands of songs floating around the Net, how does the ordinary fan sort...
Poetic justice, perhaps, that the home of reality fare like Alien Autopsy should end up in this semantic bind. Yet you can forgive American High (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.) the creative phrasing: What is high school if not Survivor with diplomas? Besides, this reality series/teen show is a thousand times realer, factually and emotionally, than Big Brother and Dawson's Creek put together. That's partly because Cutler, who produced The War Room and directed A Perfect Candidate, let the kids film their own "video diaries" and partly because the show's MTV-meets-PBS kineticism captures the confused rush...