The reeling Bush campaign is pulling out all the stops to show that George
W. is not only a true leader of men, but a warm soul. "He's had to sit in
the chair," cries Gov. Carroll Campbell of South Carolina, whose state faces
a Feb. 19...
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01 February 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Best lead paragraph of the New Hampshire primary: "I
expect to live long enough to hear a woman running for president asked what
she would do if she found herself pregnant" -- Ellen Goodman.
This is the year that the...
27 January 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- You must admit, the Iowa caucuses gave us a trove of
delights.
First there is the incomprehensible second-place finish of Steve Forbes, a man with the charisma of former guv Dolph Briscoe. Now your cynics would argue...
27 January 2000
Andrew Jackson won the White House in 1828 with a fresh approach to
oratory. "Jackson was the first president to master the liberal rhetoric,"
wrote historian Howard Zinn, who called it "the new politics of ambiguity
-- speaking for the...
25 January 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- You know how refreshing it is when someone in politics
just up and tells the flat truth? I hope she doesn't get fired for it, but
Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Bush campaign, did so after George W.
got "off-message"...
14 January 2000
And so, early in the year 2000, it came to pass that visions of a seamless
media web enraptured the keepers of pecuniary faith as never before. A
grand new structure, AOL Time Warner, emerged while a few men proclaimed
themselves trustees...
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