Cover Story | Trigger locks kept harsh rhetoric from accidentally firing in prime time, and the soft-focus GOP convention in Philadelphia successfully projected a new Republican image. But after a week of brotherly love, will the Bush-Cheney ticket be tough enough to finish off Gore and company?
Cover Story Sidebar | George W. Bush's campaign designed its convention to match its
site's slogan as the City of Brotherly Love. Republicans are still
wincing at the media reaction eight years ago to the GOP convention
in Houston: "A Feast of Hate and Fear," declared one headline in
Newsweek that year. So this year the Republicans announced in
advance that there would be no night devoted to partisan attacks on
the Democrats. But even more surprising was the absolute
disappearance of months of platform spats
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