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...their candidate left to polite applause, Bush spinmeisters sought to lower expectations. They are wise to do so - this is a crowd that goes overwhelmingly Democrat (Dole got 14 percent of the black vote, and Bush's dad did even worse), and will doubtless give Al Gore's Jesse Jackson impression Wednesday a much friendlier response. But the Texan seemed to have gotten credit for showing up and owning up to the GOP's very white track record...
...Booster Club, which supports the district's popular athletic programs. "I couldn't get a single parent to attend a planning meeting, and we had just won a state championship in football," he says. But before ruling out the Osceola system for his five-year-old son Jackson, Brothers saw one last opportunity: to open a publicly financed charter school. Governor Mike Huckabee had signed legislation in early 1999 that would allow for as many as 12 charter schools, independent of local districts, to be established in the state. So Brothers, along with the Chamber of Commerce director, Mayor Dickie...
...meant to be an entertainment," says Robert Jackson (Alec Baldwin), leader of the prosecution in the 1945 trial of Nazi officers at Nuremberg. "It's meant to be a trial." But in this mini-series, written by David W. Rintels and directed by Yves Simoneau, instruction and entertainment make a pretty good match. Baldwin nicely tamps down his natural charisma to get at a good man's frustration in abiding by the stern moral rules that he set for the tribunal. In melodrama, of course, the villains always win; they're the ones who get to strut. Thus Brian...
...PHIL JACKSON So there was a little riot. He's still ubercoach. Too bad he didn't run Bradley's campaign...
Hanging over it all was a certain legal proceeding. Days earlier, Microsoft got rare good news: Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson stayed his order dividing up the company pending appeal. Microsoft lawyers were busily drafting briefs urging the Supreme Court to hold back and let a presumably more pro-Microsoft appeals court get a crack at it first. But in Building No. 33, Gates was dodging the topic. Pressed by a reporter, he insisted nothing in .NET had been influenced by the case. Some observers, however, saw it as at least partly an effort to fend off a break-up. Jackson...