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But what happens when the butt of your satire co-opts your plot line? The Republican Convention could have been dreamed up by Oral Roberts -- or Bob. Folksy singers abounded in Houston, supporting party ideology with hymns to red blood, white bread and blue-tinted hair. There was country star...
Before Bush's finale, the convention had a schizophrenic quality not often seen at G.O.P. gatherings. Night after night, the party's fault lines were laid bare for the nation to see. Patrick Buchanan's darkly apocalyptic speech Monday night all but raised the specter of race war, only to...
For Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Iowa last week became their own Field of Dreams. A shimmering summer's day was just beginning its slow fade into dusk as the eight-bus caravan pulled into Manchester for a carefully orchestrated "unscheduled" stop. The local Democrats had done their part -- a...
Some pundits are worried that these candidate Q-and-A sessions have supplanted regular newscasts with something less rigorous journalistically. The carping seems misguided. The citizen forums have not replaced the news; they have replaced other forms of campaigning. What's more, they compare favorably with more mainstream TV-news...
Angel's approach relies less on intricate control systems and more on vitreous wizardry. The 10-ton mirror he and his colleagues plan to install in Arizona -- merely a warm-up for some 8-m versions -- boasts a light-collecting surface that is nearly as wide as a house is...