Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...evening on the East Coast, the Associated Press delegate tally showed Gore with 975 of the 2,170 needed to win the nomination at the Democratic National Convention this summer in Los Angeles. Bradley...
...chances of Bush and McCain running together are currently slim, however, simply because the two have spent months attacking each other and are not likely to reconcile their differences by the summer...
Perhaps the most promising issue through which we can voice our opinion is gun control. Due to Columbine, as well as far too many other major shootings in the past year, the issue has been placed in the national spotlight. Last summer a significant effort was made in Washington to pass reasonable gun legislation. Sadly, the effort was defeated due to special interests and partisan politics. Gun control is still gaining national attention, and has the potential to be a major issue in the election. A number of organizations have mobilized on the issue, most notably Handgun Control...
...blur of media impressions, a smearing of hot issues and a spate of mock-angry accusations in "debates" - by adults who hope to lead the nation - that the opponent's mother wears army boots. It is not all bad. The conventions - great countrywide pep rallies - will come in summer's heat, and the long campaign will subject both candidates to the kinds of pressures and scrutiny that in the end serve the country well. But the nominating process, which has seemingly approved the status quo with such finality, might stand some tuning as this new century progresses...
...LaChiusa says he first read the poem even earlier--1994, so there!--though he didn't start to work on it for nearly three years. Lippa's version was the first to be staged, in a workshop production at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut in the summer of 1997. (LaChiusa's had its first reading a few months later.) The two creative teams profess unconcern at the possibility of Party overload. "They're going to be two completely different shows," says Wolfe. "That's the fascinating phenomenon of art: you can paint a picture of a bird...