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...fight now," it continues, "is to ensure that prosperity enriches all our families, not just a few. Strengthen social security." Ah, we see: "Improve" (Bush) means "turn into something else." "Strengthen" (Gore) means "keep exactly as it is, come hell or high water, just so it lasts until the baby boomers are dead." Gore will "take on big drug companies to guarantee prescription drugs for seniors. Hold schools accountable for results." (Yes! Those bastards!) "Tax cuts for working families and the middle class." Note the missing verb; at this point the syntax has broken down, as the biography has wholly...
...Lower tire inflation gives a better grip on the road, a softer ride and, yes, a touch more stability, but it's also hell on tires. It's unclear whether that contributed to the blowouts responsible for 62 deaths, although at least one lawsuit now says it did. (Ford was also putting Goodyear tires on its Explorers then, and they apparently have fared fine.) Adding to the problems: It stands to reason that a more stable SUV would have handled those blowouts better, and saved some lives in the process...
...Will Richard go to hell for his tactics...
...Womack has such a hit in I Hope You Dance, which has spent most of the summer as the No. 1 country single. A sort of 12-step program in verse ("Don't let some hell-bent heart leave you bitter/When you come close to selling out, reconsider"), this ballad by Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers gets a luscious setting, with Womack crooning it like a lullaby to a sad child. The song is sweet and swell, but it's not all that's special about the Jacksonville, Texas, singer...
...George W. While the elder Bush was never really a child, his son was one for a long, long time. It was soon after they'd departed the East Coast for the wilds of West Texas that George Sr. wrote back to his father-in-law, "Georgie aggravates the hell out of me at times...but then at times I'm so proud of him I could die." A friend who went to school with the son but worked for the father says, "It's not that W. rebelled; he just was wilder than the old man expected...