Word: race
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...task ahead seems impossible given how the race ended, it is worth remembering how it began. Bush came to the field with less experience in public life than just about anyone in a century and proceeded to take in more money in his first four months of campaigning than anyone had ever raised in two years; he confronted a sitting Vice President with the wind at his back and maintained a nearly unbroken lead for more than a year, even though more people agreed with the other guy's positions. He took on the suicide wing of his party, which...
BUSH: Well, first of all, there was the humbling aspect of constantly being the butt of everybody's jokes. The good news was I wasn't the only butt in the race. It's part of a test of focus and keeping things in perspective. I'm also a more patient person, more deliberative as a result of a long campaign. It steels somebody for the job, helps boost the confidence of the person running, when all's said and done. I'm a better person for the campaign...
...strategist grumbled about Gore's eldest child and most dedicated warrior. Though Karenna was teary-eyed at her father's party after the concession speech, an attendee recalls her joking "Count me in!" when talk turned to organizing an effort to defeat Jeb Bush in the 2002 Florida gubernatorial race. Her father may have sounded conciliatory, "but I'm not there yet," she said...
After several pit stops along the Rockville-Bethesda corridor, Venter established his brainchild--Celera--in Rockville. Here he built the world's largest collection of genome-sequencing computers and won the race to map the 3 billion letters of human DNA (as well as the genomes of several other species). But with the NIH's Human Genome Project publishing much of the same data free on its website, Venter must now convince corporate customers that his DNA maps are more accurate and his proprietary software tools indispensable...
What happened in the presidential election in Florida was a statistical aberration that the system will survive. The more important story is that American democracy is turning into a plutocracy. The best predictor of which candidate is going to win any political race is who spends the most money. DIANELOS GEORGOUDIS San Jose, Costa Rica...