Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...high-collar running mate in Joe Lieberman, brought down his negatives to the point that they are lower than Bush's, 29% vs. 34%, and reached out to swing voters. In fact, Gore has found his own way of making a character appeal. He talks about being "specific" as though it is an act of political heroism: "All this talk that it's a mistake to give out specifics, I think, was premature," Gore says. "This is not about momentum, it's about substance. I think the best substance turns out in the end to be the best politics--that...
...stayed much longer in Nebraska where she had raised three children and helped her husband Emil run their 45-acre farm. When Emil died six years ago, her daughter Alice Albers insisted that her mother move in with her and her husband and daughter in Melrose Park, Ill.--even though Lucy was in her mid-80s, near death from pneumonia, unable to walk and unhappy to be leaving her home. "After my father passed away, she just couldn't stay by herself," Alice said. "She was lonely and wasn't eating. My brother had died, and my sister works full...
...Gans, who never married, doesn't have anyone to help guide her. Though she likes her doctor as an oncologist, he is fairly brisk during their appointments, as HMO-era doctors must be. Even when she was first told she had a terminal illness, the doctor and staff gave little comfort. "They don't want you crying," Gans says. A nurse had two words for her: "Calm down." Eventually Gans found a support group, Gilda's Club, named for comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer. When Gans arrived for the first meeting, she saw that it was called...
...next step would be, rather than the other way around--even if the price was death. At his instruction, his mother and his sisters Twilia and Tammey promptly went to a local funeral home to select a casket and an urn. He trusts their taste better than his own, though he has decided to wear his white Chicago Bears sweater, one of his favorites, for the final visitation. For the service, he's compiled a tape of songs, starting with the Beatles' Let It Be and ending with Eric Clapton's paean to his dead son, Tears in Heaven, saying...
...Bruce has had no desire to give up on life. He has always been buoyed by the presence of supportive friends and family. When he felt well enough, he'd go duck hunting and fishing but never far from home in Downers Grove, Ill. Though he rarely travels more than a few miles from there, Bruce has amassed a baseball-cap collection featuring the insignias of 35 states. "I'll have every state west of the Mississippi after I get Kansas, Nebraska and Oregon. And I have friends going to those places to get them...