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...minute foreign policy question, so he moved on to domestic issues. And Gore, who had been almost visibly holding back through the first 45 minutes, finally sunk his teeth into the exchange, effectively grilling Bush on failed attempts to pass hate crimes legislation in Texas and managing to paint himself as an ally of both Cheney and Lieberman on the issue of gay marriage. On gun control, the differences were less stark: Gore favoring licensing but vowing to keep his hands off "hunters? and sportsmen?s rifles." Bush held up pretty well, pushing for stricter enforcement of current laws...
Before the discovery of that anonymous letter, conventional wisdom had it that the cornerstone had been placed in the northeast corner of the White House, since it was Masonic practice to choose that corner. In a 1901 renovation, paint was scraped from a few stones in a vain effort to locate an inscription. Once the Charleston letter surfaced, interest immediately shifted to the southwest corner of the White House...
...that has changed. The Rays added five bathrooms, four fireplaces, a new roof, fresh paint and hundreds of yards of window dressing. Some of the seven rooms are named after former inhabitants: Major Pierce, Bonnie Victoria, Lady Melodie and Sir Christopher...
...made little sense; some was flatly wrong, like charging that Gore had "outspent him" in this election. And yet some viewers found themselves rooting for him to hang in there. The other guy was better prepared and better spoken but profoundly annoying as well, starting with the orange finger paint over his Florida tan, a mixture that made him look as if he should be skinned and turned into a Coach bag. He talked too much and smiled too much and sighed too much, and was so in control of his material that he turned his proposals into a bludgeon...
...carpet, the paint, even the wood gets lighter," Halvorson says...