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DIED. FRANK WILLS, 52, keen-eyed former Watergate security guard who discovered the break-in that led to Richard Nixon's resignation; from brain cancer; in Augusta, Ga. Working the midnight shift at the complex, Wills called police after noticing tape on door locks leading to the offices of the Democratic National Committee. When they arrived, they found a burglary in progress. After a brief period of fame, Wills spent the remainder of his life largely in poverty...
...Increase the government's role in health care, or decrease it. Get the federal government on the education problem, or get the states to handle it. Spend more, or spend less. Stay out of Alaska, or drill it cautiously. Cheney may have encapsulated the evening's major tone shift with one comment on fixing public schools: "We think we know how to do that." Hey - we're both trying to help, and each of us thinks we know how to do it best. So just pick where you want those trillions - and our attentions...
Roni F. Yasmine, the owner of Choice Mart, said he sees "Operation Cops in Shops" as a shift in the enforcement of the drinking age. While in the past, police have generally penalized vendors for selling alcohol to minors, he said they are now holding the minors more accountable for attempting to purchase...
...women who work the spreadsheet at the office, who do the night shift at the factory and who serve you coffee at 35,000 ft. They live in households with incomes between $15,000 and $75,000. They like Gore's economic populism--especially on issues that have got little media attention, like his plan for IRA-style savings instruments to build wealth. But because they're parents--married, divorced and unmarried--they carry a special concern for the moral climate of the country. This, combined with a distrust of Washington, makes them targets for Bush and his pitch...
...They sang verses denouncing the East Coast liberal aristocracy (which rhymes with Washington, D.C.) and "We'll take them out of first class and with a mighty cheer/ We'll send them to the rear" and a verse about Bush and Gore ("We'll make them work the night shift in a 7-Eleven store/ And let them clean the toilets and let them scrub the floor") and another verse against "the media, those mighty millionaires/ Who weave their little fictions sitting on their derrieres" and the chorus, of course, about truth marching on. The rabble got highly aroused...