Word: weeks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...tell the difference between Al ("We're for the people") Gore and George W. ("I trust the people") Bush? Take a look at what each candidate says at this week's debate about how to "save" Social Security. You have probably heard that the popular program will go bankrupt soon, but that's not exactly true. The real problem is that as the baby boomers retire and then live longer than previous cohorts, aid to the elderly will take up more of the budget, leaving little room for other priorities like health care or education. The solution we choose will...
...catch Dick Cheney on the campaign trail if you're a seven-year-old. The man likes a school and listening to his wife Lynne read The Very Hungry Caterpillar--a captive audience under adult supervision, and no rope line. Cheney's staff quickly penciled in a school last week when they realized they would be in Pennsylvania for two days doing nothing but fund raisers. They cobbled together an event at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., which the principal didn't learn about until 3 p.m. the day before. The gym was only two-thirds full...
...mastermind of four ever more savage ethnic wars lives under international indictment for crimes against humanity. But, suddenly, the man who successfully depicted himself as at one with the Serb people has lost his aura of invincibility with the stunning official admission that he came in second in last week's presidential ballot. No one knew which of his nighttime hideouts he was holed up in, but if he was anywhere near downtown Belgrade, he could hear hundreds of thousands of his compatriots chanting "Save Serbia and kill yourself, Slobodan...
...thousands of Serbs who had valiantly voted for him, and all the Western leaders. By the opposition's tally of 51% to 36%, the challenger won a decisive victory. Milosevic defiantly said no, shaving the official count to 49% to 39% so he could call for a runoff next week that would buy him time to rewrite the popular verdict. The steely maneuverings of the humiliated President reminded one and all that Milosevic cannot be counted out until...
...Bush advisers were already feeding him gently self-mocking lines for this week, like "I may mangle my words, but I've never mangled the truth." The issue of Gore's complex relationship with the facts dates back to well before this election cycle, long before he'd ever said anything about Love Canal or the Internet. During his first presidential run in 1988, his own staff warned him about hurting his image by stretching the truth, and "how it may continue to suffer if you continue to go out on a limb with remarks that may be impossible...