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 Stories About: Al Gore AND Bill Clinton
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U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: Clinton I Clinton and Gore, fox and hedgehog |
David Roberts |
02 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Bill Clinton gave the keynote address at the conference. That means I got to see Gore and Clinton within a few hours of one another, and wow, what an interesting contrast. Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories, hedgehogs and foxes. The fox knows many things; the hedgehog knows a lot about one thing. Bill Clinton is perhaps the foxiest fox of our time, and Gore perhaps the hedgehoggiest hedgehog. Gore takes one thing -- climate change -- and meth ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, Bill Clinton (all these topics) |
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Clinton Global Initiative: Bill and Al, reunited at least Bill Clinton kicks off annual meeting with big names and big aims |
Brian Beutler |
26 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I'm not sure when Al Gore and Bill Clinton were last in the same room together, let alone on a stage together, but they reunited publicly today at the start of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. (And, to focus on the superficial for a moment, their handshake -- clumsy and brief, an afterthought really -- didn't look at all like the sort of handshake you might expect a former U.S. president and his erstwhile second-in-command to share.) Clinton introduced ... |
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| Topics: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, climate, energy, politics (all these topics) |
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