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...uniter not divider" theme and claims that people are savvy enough to know that Love and Happiness will never be a legislative anthem. "People see Washington as a place of powerful interests, where they need a president who takes their side and stands up and fights for them," says Tad Devine, a chief Gore strategist. He points as evidence to a St. Louis, Mo., debate-watching focus group of 50 people, assembled by the Gore camp. They arrived with the lion's share of them, 41 percent, undecided. They left with 53 percent of the room for the vice president...
...called class warfare in this country goes in only one direction--up. You are engaging in class warfare if you point out what sort of people would benefit from a repeal of the estate tax or if you raise the possibility that Dick Cheney's retirement package seems a tad overgenerous for a CEO who, by some reckonings, may have weakened the company. If you criticize welfare mothers for irresponsibility and laziness and immorality, on the other hand, you are not waging class warfare; you are simply trying to uphold the American virtues of thrift and ambition...
...fact, sometimes Sydney may have taken the entertainment a tad too far. Beach volleyball had its own M.C., Lifeguard Dave, who worked the crowd on that rare day when the sunshine and four bronzed athletes a-diving were not enough. After a spectator good-naturedly heckled Chelsea Clinton for not wearing a hat, Dave called him out of the audience for a light-hearted reprimand. Dave also pioneered a new crowd move, the slow-motion wave, which is somehow much, much funnier than an ordinary wave...
...accounts, Lebed is intelligent and likable, considered a tad geeky because of the black leather briefcase he totes to school. "He's not very active in school and stuff," notes Kristel Rice, a senior at Cedar Grove High School, where Lebed is a junior. While students knew of his interest in stock trading, he kept to himself, asking only a few to join him. "He kept quiet about it," says classmate Tom McCarthy. "He kept it personal...
...then there's that look. Alba's Max simply looks like the future--a character who is literally the best of humankind embodied in a form that none of us can claim for our own tribe. Which, granted, may lay a tad much social import on a stylish, pumped-up, hellaciously fun comic book of a series. So let's just put it this way: we have seen the Woman of the Future, and she kicks butt...