Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...they circled around each other last week on the stage's red plush carpeting, the body language of both candidates told voters everything they needed to know about the way each man will pose and paint himself through the final two-week act of this election. Here, laid bare, was the choice: Whom do you want to tame Washington for the next four years--the lover or the fighter...
...King Arthur's taking Excalibur from the stone. "I mean, can we let it soak in that we've had the best economy in the history of the world for two minutes before having to say we're not satisfied?" says one Democratic strategist, sighing. By late last week it was an exasperated Clinton, not Gore, who finally touted the past eight years. "One thing I admire about our Republican friends is that the evidence has no impact on them," he gibed. "The country is so much better off [with] our economic policy, our education policy, our environmental policy...
...stepping into Haiti; he argues that purely humanitarian missions do not warrant U.S. military involvement--but he defends his father's humanitarian intervention in Somalia. And while Bush opposed congressional Republican efforts to mandate early U.S. withdrawal from the Balkans, his top foreign policy adviser made clear last week he plans to pull U.S. peacekeeping troops out of there. More egregiously, he said during the second debate, "I hope our European friends become the peacekeepers in Bosnia." But they already are. U.S. forces account for just 4,500 of the 20,000 peacekeepers in Bosnia...
Some governors who have been elected to the Senate have found it a disappointing experience. One day you're a chief executive; the next you're a powerless freshman. But Mel Carnahan was hopeful. A few weeks before his death last week in a private-plane crash, Carnahan told TIME that he enjoyed serving in Missouri's statehouse and that he "revered" his late father, who served in Congress from 1945 to 1960. "I would like to go there and do my own version of what he did," Carnahan said...
Carnahan's death shocked his home state. At his campaign office, aides wandered listlessly. After last week's presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri, several hundred mourners massed in a nearby park in the chill air. Condolences filled talk radio. An officeholder since 1960, when he was 26, Carnahan was a beloved two-term Governor. A self-styled New Democrat, he had some of the Midwestern twang and even a bit of the look of Harry Truman, who once held the Senate seat Carnahan was seeking. His death not only cut short his career but dimmed Democratic hopes as well...