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WASHINGTON--A forthcoming biography of Vice President and presidential hopeful Al Gore challenges yet another key assertion by the Gore campaign about the candidate's former marijuana use.
Bio , produced for St. Louis mayoral hopeful Clarence Harmon by Dawn Laguens, presents something of an anomaly: an African-American Democrat running to the right.
From now until mid-September, Time, Newsweek , the New York Times , and half the other magazines and newspapers in the country will participate in that odd journalistic ritual whereby critics abandon the skepticism we demand of them the rest of the year and emit hopeful bubbles of enthusiasm--a gush that turns to bile when the plays or movies or art shows in question prove as disappointing as one sort of suspected they would be.
The Web sites of each major presidential hopeful feature an inspirational slogan that encapsulate the candidate's vision for America.
So when you see a story like that unfold in the middle of Africa, it's impossible not to be hopeful.