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...praises, before her "passion for social justice," is her political skills. "She has nearly perfect pitch," Gore says, beaming. Indeed, at 22, in a room full of White House advisers, Karenna came up with the best line for Gore in his debate against Jack Kemp: "If you won't use any football stories," Gore said, "I won't tell any warm and humorous stories about chlorofluorocarbon abatement." This time around, she has helped develop lines like "The presidency is not an academic exercise," which Gore used to nail Bill Bradley in the primaries. She tweaks Gore's speeches and debate...
...Gore's second Inaugural in Slate, she described Chuck Berry stepping on her foot and how all the party tenting made her house look like the death scene in E.T. When she went off to Spain after college in 1995 to work on a newspaper there, she declined to use a car that had been found for her at a good price; she chose to live on her salary and take the subway instead...
Yahoo still has 10 times the audience, but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what they're looking for most or all of the time. "You see people smile when they use it, like they've found something no one else knows about," says Danny Sullivan, editor of the online newsletter searchenginewatch.com...
...spurring school systems across the U.S. to implement antibullying programs, which have proved effective in other countries. In Massachusetts, the Executive Office of Public Safety has set aside $1 million in federal money to help schools identify potential bullies and aid their victims. Beginning this fall, teachers statewide will use a curriculum created at Wellesley College that tackles bullying as early as kindergarten. Administrators at Liberty Middle School in Ashland, Va., started a similar program last year. Each week teachers meet with a group of 14 students and perform activities designed to promote interpersonal skills. Administrators have also created zero...
...does. But he uses Clinton's alternate name. At the request of the Gore campaign, Clinton quietly took an alternate name during the primaries. His alternate name became "This Administration." So when the question is, "If your running mate said that Bill Clinton was immoral, how could you have said that he's one of our greatest Presidents?", Gore says, "This Administration has brought the American people the longest sustained economic etc., etc." In Arkansas, taking an alternate name is easily done by mail; in fact, Clinton was able to use the same form to change his birth date...