Campaign 2000: When Politicians Get Prissy

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Last Thursday, a day before Bush's attack hit the airwaves, the Republican was telling an audience that "politics doesn't have to be ugly and mean." But it does--a little--or we won't know what makes one candidate better than the other. They should all just stand up and take--and make--their hits. But Bush wants to have it both ways. When asked in a TV interview whether he'd gone negative, Bush said it depends on what the definition of negative is. Where have we heard that kind of sophistry before?

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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