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Lastly, the election--which, when you think about it, also didn't happen. For about a minute people actually thought we might get McCain and Bill Bradley, but we wound up with the two guys we knew we'd get, deep down. And what did they do? First George W. Bush did the unexpected: he didn't make a fool of himself during the debates. Then Al Gore couldn't decide whether he was Attack Dog Al or Nice Guy Al. And finally, Dubya and Al tied. In a year when things didn't happen, one after another...
...close as they're gonna get b. Hosting a millennium celebration c. Losing another staring contest with Socks d. Totally flummoxed by Regis' $200 question...
People looked at the searing photograph of a U.S. federal agent taking a young boy at gun point and asked, "How did it get to this?" Briefly, here's how: in late 1999, a small boat sank while making its perilous way from Cuba to Florida. Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's mother and 10 other refugees drowned. Elian was picked up by two fishermen as he floated in an inner tube off Florida's coast. The boy had relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay...
...famous 1965 civil rights march, but by all accounts he wasn't the worst of segregationists and played no role in the beatings that occurred. As times changed, Smitherman's politics were right enough to appeal to Selma's white voters and centrist enough that he didn't get thrown out as an anachronism. He was running for a 10th re-election when, on Sept. 12 at age 70, he finally came up on the short end of a vote. James Perkins Jr., 47, a former computer consultant, was chosen as the first-ever black mayor of Selma with...
...exits the year as the Republican Party's worst nightmare this side of a dimpled chad. What a turn of events! When Hillary Clinton first paid court to retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed" and "Uh-oh" were prominent among them. When she announced her candidacy, the term carpetbagger was immediately hurled. But New York likes its carpetbaggers--people seemed to forget that Robert F. Kennedy and James Buckley not only ran for Senate from the Empire State but won--and New York...