We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.

We don't want to score field goals when we can score touchdowns.

[Among the demands attributed to Lopez in the gossip pages: a dressing room fitted out with white orchids, white walls, read more

[Among the demands attributed to Lopez in the gossip pages: a dressing room fitted out with white orchids, white walls, a white sofa and an endless stock of Evian-room-temperature only, thank you. So when Lopez went AWOL in winter 2000, the warnings seemed prophetic.] I lost track of her, ... It was a huge job, and all the meetings were either rescheduled or canceled. I thought, 'This is going to be very difficult.'

Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.

Whatever she wants to do, we'll always agree with her.

Advanced data services activity in the U.K. is following the classic pattern of adoption -- first gaining traction within the read more

Advanced data services activity in the U.K. is following the classic pattern of adoption -- first gaining traction within the technologically savviest group and then spreading across the rest of the majority. Time plays a critical factor, as the services with an established utility from an extended period on the market are first to gain the most from the mainstream audience, who demand products and services that are relatively glitch-free.

Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how read more

Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how cognizant of ethnicity can you be in crafting a district. How distorted can a district become when the purpose is to capture a particular race or ethnicity?

We're working feverishly to try to close the gap and to make sure we balance at the end of the read more

We're working feverishly to try to close the gap and to make sure we balance at the end of the year. ... There's no other option.

It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive.

It takes people to run a city. And they are expensive.

[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, read more

[Winning his party's nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party's most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration's empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as] very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.

We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] read more

We're just trying to break down those barriers and make sure the program is as good as any other [Scouting] program.