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...list, whose length reached its zenith last year at a whopping 109 items, hovered over the heads of D'Alessandro and the school committee...
...promise a topic a day: prosperity, education, the new economy, environment and energy, tax cuts and health benefits. And in doing so, a reminder that the veep has been part of the most unceasing period of prosperity in American history. Gore may be determinedly keeping Clinton at arm's length - and clearly expecting some integrity points for doing so - but in Little Rock on Tuesday the meat of his stump speech was the last eight years...
Amidst the early chaos, Harvard began to take charge of the game. The Crimson's defensive pressure forced the Tigers into making bad passes, and Harvard maintained control of the ball at length whenever it took possession...
Before last Tuesday's town hall debate, advisers for George Bush and Al Gore agreed that each candidate would be surrounded by an invisible perimeter, about an arm's length away, that could not be breached by the other. For the vice president - who had been told that this "hockey crease," as it was described to his amusement, had been requested by the Bush camp - the make-believe security zone was an invitation to rattle and challenge his opponent. Like a boy playing red light, green light, Gore encroached. "I thought he was going to hit George," Barbara Bush said...
Later on, I entertained the notion that Bush was suggesting that some subjects, such as the length of Gore's tax plan, are best debated in the language of numbers, whereas actual statistics about how much money will be spent on specific programs are simply too crass to be repeated in the exalted format of a presidential debate. This argument didn't make terribly much sense either, since a tax plan is actually composed of a collection of numbers, and so it seems slightly disingenuous to discuss only the vaguest of guiding principles while masking the actual outcome...