Word: eric
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...issue new prominence last fall. So Gore's announcement appealed to domestic voters such as the gay-rights groups that attacked him last summer for allegedly supporting U.S. pharmaceutical companies trying to block the manufacture of generic AIDS drugs in South Africa. "He is showing presidential-quality leadership," said Eric Sawyer, a founder of ACT UP New York. "Compared to the other candidates, he is doing all the right things." But some Africans said they were unimpressed by the pledge of only $100 million more to deal with a crisis that experts predict could cost $2.3 billion...
...game is momentum. And Thursday's revelation that Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley has experienced multiple reoccurences of an irregular heartbeat is a stick in the spokes of his resurgent campaign in the Hawkeye State. "This is exactly what he didn't want," says TIME political correspondent Eric Pooley, reporting from Iowa. The news emerged just when Bradley was waging an eleventh-hour comeback, in which he unleashed Daniel Patrick Moynihan to shore up the state's elderly vote and regional favorite Bob Kerrey to mobilize the party establishment. "Right when he needs to get messages across," says Pooley...
...nomination cycle, the campaign season has started much earlier - George W. Bush's campaign had raised more money by last July than any previous candidate had ever accumulated in an entire preelection year. "The candidates know they have to make a strong impression early," says TIME chief political correspondent Eric Pooley. "That's why we've seen an almost complete focus on New Hampshire and Iowa. On the Republican side there's also been some focus on South Carolina, where there's a Republican, but not a Democratic, primary on Feb. 19. It's always been the case that...
...Campaign 2000 kicks off this week with an analysis of the increasingly antagonistic race for the Democratic nomination. "We try to pull the curtain back on Gore and Bradley and say, 'There's a lot of fracas here, but are the candidates all that different?'" Chief political correspondent Eric Pooley and national correspondent Karen Tumulty address the question in a behind-the-scenes look at the Democratic running men, while senior editor Nancy Gibbs essays about the nature of post-ideological campaigning, and contributor Steve Lopez casts an amusing eye on the candidates in his campaign diary...
Your articles on the Columbine tapes of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold should be required reading for every parent and teacher in America. KAREN WILSON Greensboro...