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...Tuesday night at the Democratic convention was a case in point. Look at the roster that straitened circumstances forced the Gore campaign to put on. Union bosses. Jesse Jackson. Bill Bradley. Big ol' red-meat, rabble-rousin', poverty-fightin', national-election-losin' Democrats - the same kind of people Bill Clinton screwed over at the last convention because he could afford to. For Al Gore, this was I-haven't-nailed-down-my-base night. It was for-the-love-of-God-please-don't-vote-for-Ralph Nader night...
...This year, President Clinton selected 15 Americans to receive the award, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., former senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan...
David Einhorn, counsel at the Jackson Laboratory, a major supplier of laboratory mice that distributes animals covered by the oncomouse patent, said the mice typically sell for about $50 to $60 each...
...center left. "Transcending the old categories of left and right," after all, is a favorite rhetorical trope of liberals who are tired of being dismissed in a political culture that makes "moderation" the pre-eminent virtue. Ideological taxonomists will find the lineup of shadow convention speakers--from Jesse Jackson to Paul Wellstone--eerily predictable and not particularly transcendent. All that's missing is a candlelight vigil for the Scottsboro Boys...
Though the technological problem persists, the Administration continues to expand a decision to deploy the building blocks of our national missile-defense system [NATION, July 10]. Our leaders suffer from what has been termed a "field of dreams" attitude: If we build it, it will work! WILLIAM E. JACKSON JR. Davidson...