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...last week Gore picked a different fight. "The presidency is more than a popularity contest," he declared in his speech on Thursday night. "It's a day-by-day fight for people." All that populism, the hymns to long-haul truckers and late-shift waitresses, is not really about changing tactics; it's about changing enemies. He may not win a popularity contest against George W. Bush, but he might win one against, say, Exxon. You didn't hear him so much as mention Bush last week. Instead he found the enemies he wanted: the greedy HMOs, the polluters...
...years, TIME reporter KAREN TUMULTY suspected that the way to really get into Al Gore's head was to stop focusing on him--and shift your gaze to the women behind him. "We have heard so much about the men who have been role models for these candidates," Tumulty says. "But these women explain parts of [Gore] that you don't get any other way." Gore's mother, Pauline Gore, shaped her son's relentlessly left-lobe way of looking at the world. And his wife Tipper helped awaken his latent emotional side. "What really got me interested in doing...
...ages noticeably, alarmingly, in the White House. The immense burden is supposed to exhaust the man - look at Lyndon when they carried him out. Maybe we half-think a president hasn't done his job if he is not at least staggering a little at the end of the shift. Poor Franklin Roosevelt burned out and died in April 1945, after so much labor...
...more. With so many companies hiring so many people and paying so many of them in equity, Techtopia has begun to draw, like the gravitational pull of the moon, from government and K Street out to Virginia. "There has been a fundamental psychic shift in favor of entrepreneurship," says businessman Morino, who runs a well-known incubator for start...
...driven once cozy classes up to regular capacity. Overcrowding was so severe in one St. Louis district that some students had to be turned away. So two years ago, the district extended the school year five weeks across the board, dedicating the bonus hours to intensive reading instruction. The shift paid off at test time. The four schools on the new calendar raised their scores, and one landed among the state's best performers. The longer year is so popular, reports principal JoAnn Bester Clay, that some parents and children want to abolish summer break. "I don't have...