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...IMPACT: National standards give way to local and state testing requirements. Reading takes center stage in classrooms. Public schools could suffer as vouchers shift money to private and parochial schools...
...Philadelphia - where Gore has been told that a huge Democratic margin is vital to taking the state as a whole - Gore actually reminded a black congregation that way back when, "strict constructionist" meant Dred Scott and three-fifths of a person, and that of course he much preferred Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas. And that was after he reminded them that everyone has to choose between "good and evil...
...hitting Bush for that allegedly overpromised trillion dollars of Social Security surplus - and draping the whole thing over a clip of the stumping Bush's flub/metaphor/incredible ignorance on Thursday about Gore's treating FDR's safety net "like it's some kind of federal program." (Which, by the way, Gore's surrogates have really latched onto, probably as a surrogate for the untouchable DUI story...
...incident that led to the DUI arrest was hardly dramatic. Bush, then 30, was driving down Kennebunkport's Ocean Avenue after midnight on the way to his family's summer compound. He had been drinking beers that night with his sister Dorothy, Australian tennis star John Newcombe and Newcombe's wife. Officer Bridges, just getting off duty, saw Bush's car slipping briefly onto the shoulder before getting back on the road. Bridges stopped the car and asked Bush to take a balloon test. The result: an alcohol level over Maine's 0.10 legal limit. Bush readily admitted...
...opponent's campaign was involved," he told Fox News the day after the story broke. "But I do know that the person who admitted doing it was a Democrat and a partisan." Connolly was a Democratic candidate for governor two years ago (finishing third in a five-way race) and a delegate to this year's Democratic National Convention. There he handed out anti-Bush buttons proclaiming W Is for Wiener, and he has a web site bearing the same slogan. Yet he insists he had no contact with the Gore campaign. "It's not a dirty trick to tell...