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...even higher." Some of the union's strategies will target manufacturers of the products its members are paid to tout. "There have been talks about a huge boycott against Procter & Gamble," says Robbins. "I don't think P&G wants celebrities telling America not to buy their products." This week O'Donnell asked Procter & Gamble and two of her other sponsors, Kellogg's and General Motors, not to run commercials made with non-union talent...
...information that Al Gore's team has collected in preparing for its candidate's first face-to-face confrontation with George W. Bush next week, none has been more sobering than the account of the last person who made the mistake of underestimating Bush's talents as a debater. Back when he was running for Texas governor in 1994, the sharp and salty incumbent Ann Richards thought she had scored a knockout in their only debate; her giddy campaign staff, taking score in the audience of a Dallas hotel ballroom, figured she had made 10 good points to his every...
...While Bush had initially proposed that two of the debates should take place on talk shows rather than in the more traditional formats he eventually agreed to, they will still provide the candidates plenty of opportunity to mix it up. Next week, for instance, each question will be followed by three answers from each side, going back and forth, with one of the exchanges lasting six minutes. That's an eternity by presidential-debate standards. The candidates will be situated more informally, seated at a table for their meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Oct. 11, and finally, will take...
...Which may be why some in Gore's camp are posing like matadors, waving their red capes in hopes of provoking the other side to snort and charge. "If you are five points down with five weeks to go, you have to be aggressive," says one, sounding more hopeful than anxious. But Bush is more likely to try a balanced approach, playing the optimistic, sunny candidate who played to such raves on "Regis" and "Oprah" this week while also working hard to raise doubts about Gore's credibility. Last week, under the cover of a heralded shift to policy, Bush...
...equivalent of Alan Greenspan, an appointed official working very closely from an established charter. Venezuela has an oil minister - he's president of OPEC right now. Maybe Clinton is jealous, because the U.S. apparently has just appointed one now, just in time for the cartel's meeting next week...