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...wasn't long after Bush spoke that the Administration began to dial it back. A tantalizing question through the first tense days was how much the 43rd President was huddling with the 41st. Bush gave no hint, even to some of his closest aides, that he was talking to his father, but everyone in the West Wing assumed he was. Dad's diplomatic alter ego, Brent Scowcroft, was in regular communication with Rice, his former protEgE. Scowcroft worked quietly behind the scenes to tone down the initial response. Bush Sr., who spent part of last week in Europe but could...
Predictable controversy triggered by self-proclaimed liberals emerged just before the 43rd Grammy Awards earlier this year when Marshall B. Mathers III, better known as Eminem, received four award nominations. The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) was "outraged." The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) expressed its strong disapproval. Michael Greene, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Grammy Awards, received thousands of phone calls in protest...
...Staples Center in Los Angeles, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Charlotte Church were handing out tiny gold statuettes to artists you may nor may not have heard of, for albums you probably never listened to, as part of a pre-telecast program that you will almost certainly never see. The 43rd Grammy Awards had begun with a characteristic whimper. On the streets around the Staples Center, curious ticketless onlookers had already gathered. On stage, tiny outrages were already taking place. In the wordy category of Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, "Things Have Changed?" from "Wonder...
...crimes or related the crimes to either candidate's domestic policy platform. Had they occurred a week earlier in the election cycle, the people might have placed a higher priority on the social services each candidate pledged to fight for, Bush might not have been elected the 43rd president of the United States and the inaugural address he gave last Saturday might have been given by Al Gore '69 instead...
...very often that a person can say with certainty he voted in an election that will be a chapter in the history books for 100 years, 500 years or as long as this Republic endures. But that's true of the vote for our 43rd President [ELECTION 2000, Dec. 4]. It's pretty heady stuff! HERB LAFAIR Santa Monica, Calif...