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...recession may be over, but the U.S. economic engine remains stalled. What can be done to get it back in gear...
Before the campaign switched into high gear, the Clintons would eat dinner at least once a week with Bill's mother and stepfather and Hillary's parents, who moved from Chicago to Little Rock a few years ago. On such occasions, says Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mother, they all subscribe to the theory that it is more important who is around the table than what's on it -- which is fortunate for Hillary, who admits she served black beans, chili and leftovers from an official dinner as last year's Christmas meal...
...false manifest, and the driver heads for Baghdad. Boasts police major Ahmed Omari as he waves through a van of vegetable oil: "Not a single truck has carried smuggled goods into Iraq." But thanks to Iraqi payoffs lavished on Jordanian government officials, thousands of tons of U.N.-embargoed communications gear, construction parts, military equipment and computers enter Iraq from Jordan to help prop up Saddam Hussein's regime...
Innovative gear is helping players break records. Maybe designers should get medals...
...incumbents: a TIME/CNN poll conducted on the day Perot quit the race had Clinton-Gore topping Bush-Quayle by 20%. That lead was 3 points larger than the one that Michael Dukakis enjoyed in the immediate afterglow of the 1988 convention. But Dukakis kept his campaign in low gear, and the Bush team wiped out his lead with negative campaigning. This time the Democrats are taking no chances. The day after the convention, Clinton and Gore set out on a six-day bus tour from New York to St. Louis. In this year's volatile politics of frustration and skepticism...