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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...stories of train campaigning will grow with each retelling. A few political veterans recall Tom Dewey's blurting into an open mike when his train lurched backward that he must have "a lunatic engineer." The New York Times's Scotty Reston ended his account of that particular incident with this line: "And then the train took off with a jerk...
...thought it had begun to stuff the digital genie back into its shrink-wrap. Despite the initial hype about MP3s, the format turned out to be downloadable music for geeks only. The rest of us couldn't be bothered spending hours wandering through dead-end links searching for a particular Phish bootleg. With Napster, however, all you have to do is type in the name of the song or artist and up will pop 2,745 Phish songs sorted by the host computer's type of modem connection and ping rate...
Politically, the horizon doesn't look quite as rosy. Republicans are drooling over the potential to exploit Energy Secretary Bill Richardson's recent admission that the Clinton administration "was caught napping" on OPEC's actions to increase oil prices. In particular, they are likely to focus on the gap between the 2.3 million-barrels-a-day production increase that Richardson was asking for - a level that could have resulted in a price reduction - and the 1.7 million-barrel increase that appears likely. In a country that has embraced the gas-guzzling SUV with enthusiasm, look for Vice President Gore...
...fill a Louis Vuitton showroom. And that may be both comforting and not for the veep and First Lady. Comforting because it's just another problem of the same ilk as several they've faced - and survived - before; not so comforting because there's always the chance that this particular allegation may finally tip the scales of public opinion fully against those associated with the Clinton regime...
...Beyond the usual allegations and denials, though, the case may contain some particular problems. Unless it can be proved that a vast right-wing conspiracy forced the Northrop Grumman staffers into lie under oath, it might be hard to convince the public that a group of pocket-protector-wearing techies had anything to gain by fabricating allegations. Adding to the administration's load are claims by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, whose $90 million civil suit filed against the White House led to the DOJ investigation, that Justice took over the case simply to delay the civil action until...