Word: supportive
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...sometimes offers her father a sense of how things are playing in the real world. In March Gore created a fire storm when he broke with the White House to support permanent residency for Elian Gonzalez, a move seen as pandering to Florida's Cuban vote. At first the campaign stonewalled the press, hoping the problem would "just go away," as a top adviser put it. "[Karenna] said, 'You need to explain this.'" About a week later, Gore went on the Today show. Though it failed to undo the damage, it did take some of the bite...
...Love as the G.O.P. reaches out to minorities and Al Gore broke barriers by picking Joe Lieberman. But upon closer inspection, it was hard to see how the all-but-unheard-of Foster could energize Buchanan's somnolent campaign, which has barely managed to get north of 1% support in the polls. She mirrors Buchanan's hard-line positions on immigration and social issues and is active in the far-right John Birch Society, which touts her as one of its speakers. Indeed, Foster's rants, calling schools "Marxist training camps," probably won't penetrate Bush's strong center-right...
...major objective of these efforts is to encourage bystanders to speak out. "If you target one kid, you're missing the point," says Espelage. "So much enabling is given by bystanders who remain passive." Espelage also suggests eliciting the support of peer-group leaders. "If they take a stand," she says, "the rest will fall in behind. They have leadership skills that could be rechanneled." Evidence of this comes from another study presented at the A.P.A. conference last week, which found, perhaps not surprisingly, that some of our best Presidents, including F.D.R., were not above "bullying and manipulating" if necessary...
...William Baldwin, president of the Creative Coalition, was clearly gloating at the mass of celebrity-hood in attendance. "Smoke and mirrors, Tinseltown and Hollywood. We fooled 'em again," he said surveying the crowd. "Here were are using the resources of the entertainment community and the resource of celebrity to support arts education, First Amendment rights and campaign finance reform...
...Teddy Kennedy was at his old-time booming best, lashing together the generations of Camelot and insisting that the strength and breadth of his support for Gore had only two precedents, each named Kennedy. The arms rose up and the hands thrust out, rally-style, turning shoulder pads into great hulking wings, giving the reverential crowd their big Brahmin in all his glory, soaring in call-and-response - "Fight for Al Gore because... HE IS FIGHTING FOR YOU" - like a linebacker angel. The subject was health care, which surely Gore needs to own, but the word, again and again...