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Gore lives in those weeds. On health care, he and his staff struggled to develop a program throughout the summer, talking about the future of medicine, how the human-genome project would be completed in his first term, how it could transform the health-care landscape. On Aug. 13 they...
For the Vice President, communing with the genome led to the child-health-insurance decision. Abstractions beget decisions about real people; facts show him the way. He loves to challenge his staff--"Where'd you get that fact? How do you know it's true?"--and that habit of mind...
Last week at Somersworth High School in New Hampshire, for instance, some poor kid asked him a simple question about how to develop leadership skills. Gore hurried over to the boy and stood too close to him, looking every bit like that one guy you end up trying to avoid...
John McCain is to campaign-finance reform what John Brown was to the abolition of slavery: the guy with the ax. So what happens if you have to swing it at yourself? McCain's services on behalf of a major contributor gave an opening last week to George W. Bush...
Did McCain cross an ethical line? McCain insists that with Paxson he merely sought some kind of timely action on the license, not approval. In a handful of cases, he did ask regulators to satisfy a company's request for specific action, though defenders say the Senator was acting in...