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Lastly, the election--which, when you think about it, also didn't happen. For about a minute people actually thought we might get McCain and Bill Bradley, but we wound up with the two guys we knew we'd get, deep down. And what did they do? First George W. Bush did the unexpected: he didn't make a fool of himself during the debates. Then Al Gore couldn't decide whether he was Attack Dog Al or Nice Guy Al. And finally, Dubya and Al tied. In a year when things didn't happen, one after another...
...rest of the year, the public did its best to ignore two presidential candidates, 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...
...point and asked, "How did it get to this?" Briefly, here's how: in late 1999, a small boat sank while making its perilous way from Cuba to Florida. Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's mother and 10 other refugees drowned. Elian was picked up by two fishermen as he floated in an inner tube off Florida's coast. The boy had relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay in the U.S. or be returned to his father in Cuba. Fidel Castro's regime staged rallies demanding the latter course...
...Democratic convention in Los Angeles in August, the Clintons were a team (right). But the body language on election night was telling. At Hillary's rally, the President kept sidling over for a hug, and Hillary kept striding away. There she stood, firmly, on her own two feet...
...Summer's Two Tragedies