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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...George W. Bush and Al Gore, who insisted there were big issues at stake. Instead of paying attention to them, most folks watched some fascinating scenes roll past: thousands of anti-globalization protesters disrupting a World Bank conference in Washington; Ford and Firestone executives blaming one another for a string of auto fatalities; Bill Clinton taking a last, slow lap around the presidential track as his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton made her first successful run for public office. Finally, the presidential campaign that everyone thought was boring suddenly became all too interesting. The election ran aground in Florida, its outcome...
...entered the year as a survivor playing out the string in a lame-duck presidency. She entered the year as the wronged spouse of a cad. He exits the year as the proud spouse of a newly elected U.S. Senator from New York, of all places. She exits the year as the Republican Party's worst nightmare this side of a dimpled chad. What a turn of events! When Hillary Clinton first paid court to retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, folks in the know had several observations: "She wouldn't," "She can't," "She'll get thrashed...
...back to Tennessee and mend fences b Wander aimlessly around the country with a calculator and pad asking, "Did you vote for me?" c Be longed for by the American public d Hang out with second-string Jewish sidekick Art Garfunkel...
DIED. MARIE WINDSOR, 80, longtime Screen Actors Guild activist and film-noir starlet famous for portraying independent if not always angelic women; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Best known for the noir classics Force of Evil and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, Windsor also starred in a string of films in the 1950s, such as Cat Women of the Moon, that earned her the moniker Queen...
Diane Sawyer gets sprayed with Silly String by Elian Gonzalez; Leonardo DiCaprio interviews President Bill Clinton...