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...Gore may be Washington's best known control freak, but when it comes to minutiae, he has nothing on Bob Graham, who these days appears on nearly everyone's short list of possible Gore running mates. The Florida Senator has been filling notebook after notebook--close to four thousand of them to date, color coded by season. He has kept a running account of his every waking moment for the past 23 years--14 in the Senate, eight in the Governor's mansion, even his days in the state legislature. Graham writes down every meal, every meeting, every person...
...among the starched white collars of Southampton at a glittery party attended by wealthy liberals from Manhattan over the 4th of July weekend. At the 78th annual dinner of the Agudath Israel, he outschmoozed all the other pols there. He was at the center of a thousand bobbing black hats in the Hilton ballroom eager to get a closer look at the golden son of Italy who had come seeking their support. He seems to embody white-picket-fence family values. You'd want him to marry your daughter if he hadn't already married his grad-school sweetheart...
...have doubts. For one thing, at the turn of the millennium, rapid change (technological, social, cultural) has become so pervasive in American life and sometimes so difficult to absorb - think of the genome project and its implications, to cite one of a thousand examples in a world of techno-miracle and deconstructed tradition - that voters might actually prefer continuity of political leadership...
Growing up, I thought about becoming a lawyer from time to time, but it was all rather abstract--law held the same sort of hypothetical interest as medicine, astronomy, marine biology or a thousand other fields. Whenever I stopped to give the idea any serious thought, the negative connotations associated with attorneys and their dirty work always seemed to pop up--especially when reinforced by stories of lawyers in my extended family whose collective moral character was, at best, highly questionable...
...talking about a few gays, a few hundred gays, a few thousand gays! I'm forever amazed that we are living in the year 2000, homosexuality has been around for thousands of years and here in America came to society's doorstep openly over 50 years ago. I'd think we would be able to accept others as they are and move on to better ourselves and the planet...