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...civil rights issues like racial profiling, hate crimes and affirmative action, Gore's record stands in clear contrast to that of Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Earlier this year, Bush consistently refused to utter a critical word about the Confederate flag flying over the statehouse in South Carolina. He even suggested that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was an "outsider" and should "butt out" of the controversy. When given the chance to speak out against a symbol of racism and treason, he could not muster the courage or the leadership to condemn...
...which have to do with his life, should matter less to voters than Bush's fibs, which have to do with our lives. At the end of the debate, Gore was showered with affection from his kids and Tipper, which can't be conjured up for the cameras. His utter inability to extend that emotion outward leads him to make up stories, which he then tells in slow motion, to seem more real. In the process, he ends up seeming less so. It's not sincerity he lacks, it's the insincerity to fake sincerity in a league with Reagan...
Both teams with utter confidence...
Things in Shanghai grow ever stranger. Sarah, now married to an elder statesman visiting the city, suddenly proposes that she and Banks run away together. "I suppose I was surprised when I heard her utter these words," he allows, but raises an objection: "The difficulty is my work here. I'll have to finish here first. After all, the whole world's on the brink of catastrophe. What would people think of me if I abandoned them all at this stage?" By this point in the novel, normal narrative logic no longer applies; after telling Sarah...
...aggressive at protecting consumers," running mate Joe Lieberman told TIME, "I think they go together." At Team Gore's convention-planning meeting on Wednesday morning, campaign chairman Bill Daley offered the ultimate reward: 100 floor passes to anyone who could get former Treasury Secretary and gazillionaire Robert Rubin to utter the mantra, "Fight for working families." It was meant jokingly, using Rubin as a symbol of Wall Street power...