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The indictment in Salt Lake overshadowed other news from a Denver courtroom that may ultimately prove far more troublesome for the Olympics. In filing a wrongful-termination lawsuit, Dr. Wade Exum, director of the U.S.O.C.'s drug-control unit for nine years before he stepped down under pressure last month...
First he hesitated in agreeing to debate Al Gore in prime time. Having then said yes, George W. Bush is now er-ing and um-ing over whether he will face off with Gore under the auspices of the Commission on Presidential Debates, an independent organisation that has been the...
While it won?t raise the same kind of international outrage as steamrolling a pro-democracy protestor in the middle of Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government?s abrupt seizure of the 200-page photographic retrospective has already raised eyebrows in the U.S. State Department. Monday, as Chinese book-binding workers...
But let's suspend disbelief for a moment. Assuming the surplus does come through, what would the tax-cut plans really do for people? Bush says under his plan, a hard-working family earning $60,000 would be spared an additional $2,050 in taxes; under Gore's, he says...
Gore has not abandoned all his Democratic tendencies. He makes up for his smaller tax cut with gigantic spending proposals like a proposed increase in child health-care coverage and a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare. Ultimately, Gore would spend about as much of the surplus as Bush. The only...