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...Curry says. He has had only one bone to pick with Lieberman. Soon after Curry lost the '94 Governor's race and joined the Clinton White House, he got a complaining phone call from his mother, feeling neglected after reading an interview with Marcia Lieberman, who said her son called her every day. "Since I couldn't very well tell Mrs. Lieberman to keep quiet, I called Joe and told him to knock...
...Gore dynasty story is different from Bush's because the talent in the next generation rests not with a brother, nephew or son but with a daughter. It is true that Tipper has helped make Gore a better candidate by jump-starting his soul. But Tipper doesn't like politics. Her daughter, on the other hand, is taken with it, fixated on strategy and tactics, fanatical about Gore and his political future. "For Tipper, it's win-win. If he wins, he's President. If he loses, she hates to see him in pain but she gets to have...
...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 this story was an offhand comment Tipper made in an interview I did with her three years ago," Tumulty says. "She said the discipline...
...talk with him or her about what lies ahead. If you'd like some help, check out the excellent picture book It's So Amazing! by Robie Harris and Michael Emberley (Candlewick; $21.99), which is geared to boys and girls ages seven to nine. It could help prepare your son or daughter--as well as reassure...
That's not at all surprising. Although judo has been part of the Olympics since 1964--nearly 200 countries participate worldwide--in the U.S. it often gets lost in the mishmash of martial-arts schools that teach everything from karate to karaoke. Pedro, 29, the son of a judo instructor, lives in Lawrence, Mass., and competes for the New York Athletic Club, but spends much of his time training in Europe and Japan. "The competition is there," he says. "In France they have 600,000 players actively competing. In the States we have maybe...