NEWS
December 18, 2000 | SCOTT MARTELLE, TIMES STAFF WRITER
After all the weighty legal battles and absurdities, nonstop media coverage and national fascination, this year's riveting presidential election has one more spotlight to throw. The electoral college meets today. And Augusta Petrone will be there. Petrone, a 62-year-old housewife, is one of four New Hampshire electors who are to gather at the Concord, N.H., statehouse at 11 a.m. to vote for president. She intends to cast her ballot for President-elect George W.
ENTERTAINMENT
October 14, 2000 | DANA CALVO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
At 9:15 Tuesday night soap-opera star Nancy Lee Grahn, who plays attorney Alexis Davis on ABC's "General Hospital," stepped in front of a banner that read "Daytime for Gore/Lieberman" and, wearing a long black skirt and pink leather jacket, faced a bank of television cameras. The political gathering for Democratic soap-opera stars had started more than an hour late.
ENTERTAINMENT
May 14, 2006 | Tina Daunt, Times Staff Writer
WHEN Al Gore lost the presidency in a disputed election, it hurt -- more than he ever was willing to show, more perhaps than he could show. He told his friends and supporters that it was "liberating" to be out of politics. Privately, he expressed his feelings sparingly: "It was a difficult blow ... " It was his wife, Tipper, who suggested a palliative. Dig out the old slide show, she told him, and get back on the road.
NEWS
June 18, 2000 | ALISSA J. RUBIN, TIMES STAFF WRITER
More than a quarter-century after the Supreme Court established a constitutional right to abortion, overall support for the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision seems to be softening as Americans adopt a more nuanced view of the circumstances under which abortions should be allowed, according to a new Los Angeles Times Poll.
NEWS
April 21, 2000 | MATEA GOLD and T. CHRISTIAN MILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush commemorated the one-year anniversary of the bloody rampage at Columbine High School with somber words Thursday, even as they carefully used the day to highlight their platforms on preventing school violence. In separate appearances at different schools, each presidential candidate took small swipes at his rival, but at times they almost echoed each other as they called for more teaching of ethics and discipline in schools.
NEWS
August 10, 2001 | BY MICHAEL QUINTANILLA, TIMES FASHION WRITER
Salvatore Fodera can't help but wonder that maybe Al Gore took his advice. Back in February, Fodera, a New York hair stylist and a vice president himself--of the Paris-based World Hair Organization--said if Gore had a beard, maybe he would have been president. Who knows why, but the former veep has elected to grow a beard on his European vacation. And word is that the beard will likely be goring, goring, gone before he returns stateside next week.
NEWS
August 17, 2000
The Gore dynasty includes several politicians and lawyers. The candidate's father was a lawyer and three-term senator from Tennessee. His mother became the first female graduate of Vanderbilt Law School. (Al Gore attended that school as well but dropped out in 1976 to run for Congress.) Attorney, confidant and brother-in-law Frank Hunger is the former head of the Justice Department's civil division. Daughter Karenna Gore Schiff, 27, recently graduated from Columbia Law School.
NEWS
October 15, 1999 | RICHARD A. SERRANO, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Albert Gore Jr. was 21 that summer of 1969 when he confronted Vietnam, the draft and an early test of his manhood. He had just graduated from Harvard, where he joined in anti-war protests that had split college campuses across the country. He had spent his summers on the family farm outside of this small town, and he knew that many of the local boys were heading off to the Army.
NEWS
October 31, 2000 | DANA CALVO and JAMES GERSTENZANG, TIMES STAFF WRITERS
Quoting the Beatles and challenging George W. Bush's fitness for the White House, Al Gore and his vice presidential running mate worked Monday to fan doubts about the Texas governor's experience, policies and record. Campaigning together on a bus tour across the political battlefields of the Great Lakes, Gore and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut spent a second consecutive day in the Midwest.
NEWS
April 16, 1988 | DAVID LAUTER, Times Staff Writer
The Rev. Jesse Jackson has collected scattered campaign contributions from all parts of California--$25 here, $50 there. But one small corner of the state has departed significantly from that pattern: a pocket of neighborhoods that, according to a Times survey, account for roughly 40% of all the money Jackson's California campaign committee has raised statewide.