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Shortly after the adoption agency called her on Christmas Eve 1996 with news that a baby girl had just arrived, Brennetta had a quick dose of reality. Imani-Brenae, 17 days old when Brennetta adopted her, woke up screaming every two hours all night long. "I thought, Oh, my God, it's just me," she says. "What was I thinking? That I could raise a baby alone...
...eve of the Democratic convention, the political talk show circuit is hopping. Speculation abounds: Can the Dems, handicapped now by the double whammy of a largely indifferent electorate and a press corps exhausted by the rigors of covering the GOP action in Philadelphia, manage to kindle some kind of excitement? Will voters tune in to meager network coverage? Can Joe Lieberman successfully pass some of his vaunted moral gravitas to his running mate? Will the Clintons leave town before they sap too much of the energy ostensibly meant for Gore...
...said Cheney, a reluctant campaigner who seemed surprised by the crowd's ecstatic reaction. All week Bush had been talking about how he picked Cheney not because the taciturn insider would help win the election but because he would make a good partner in the White House. On the eve of the Republican Convention, it seemed possible that Cheney could help Bush do both...
...public mistakes just confirmed the need for discretion. There was that event in Iowa at which Barbara Bush quipped, "One out of every 8 Americans is governed by a Bush, and with your help, we'll make that all Americans." And there was that awkward night, on the eve of the crucial New Hampshire primary, when the family gathered for a rally at a tennis club and the father majestically reappeared to praise "this boy, this son of ours." The criticism that followed seared the parents and forced them from the stage...
...keep careful track of how each delegate would vote on the first and then subsequent ballots. The early favorite, Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg, "seemed determined not to connive" for the nomination, while his opponent, New York Governor Tom Dewey, did a whirlwind whistle-stop tour on the eve of the convention, making 13 speeches in 13 hours. "He headed south with a whoosh, traveling like an over-the-road trucker trying to roll his rig home before morning," TIME reported. California Governor Earl Warren found a new way to campaign: "He made a little history. Appearing on a CBS television...