Word: whether
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...outgoing--in so many ways!--President points the way for the soon-to-be-erstwhile White House pet. Whether Bill Clinton will hang around Hollywood with his glitzy pals, Westchester County, N.Y., at the new family digs or Senator Hillary Clinton's office on the Hill remains to be seen. This much is known: at age 54, he is the second youngest ex-President in American history, after Teddy Roosevelt, and he has many days ahead...
...McCain and Bill Bradley, but we wound up with the two guys we knew we'd get, deep down. And what did they do? First George W. Bush did the unexpected: he didn't make a fool of himself during the debates. Then Al Gore couldn't decide whether he was Attack Dog Al or Nice Guy Al. And finally, Dubya and Al tied. In a year when things didn't happen, one after another, we got a non-happening, unpresidential election. Perfect...
...from Cuba to Florida. Six-year-old Elian Gonzalez's mother and 10 other refugees drowned. Elian was picked up by two fishermen as he floated in an inner tube off Florida's coast. The boy had relatives in Miami, and they took him in. Immediately, debate flared over whether Elian should stay in the U.S. or be returned to his father in Cuba. Fidel Castro's regime staged rallies demanding the latter course. In the U.S., as a crowd of Elian "supporters" grew ever larger outside the small house, the boy's case wound its way through the courts...
...great umbrage. Protests quickly led to violence, and in the next week rocks, firebombs and bullets claimed the lives of some 70 people and injured more than 1,800 others. It didn't stop there: in October this young Palestinian hurled a molotov cocktail into an alley in Ramallah; whether there were victims of this particular assault is uncertain, but by mid-November the death toll had climbed to 270, most of them Palestinians. The three participants in the earlier U.S. meeting found themselves caught in various binds: President Bill Clinton was desperate for a large foreign policy victory...
...Unsurprisingly, Bill Clinton has already found a way to walk this political tightrope: he left it up to the Census Bureau to decide in 2000 whether or not sampling would improve the accuracy of the final tally. With the differences expected to be marginal and the Republicans already happy with what the 2000 numbers can do for them, expect Bush to be similarly hands-off when decision time comes in February...