There were only about 40 people on hand to witness it last Tuesday night when Al Gore dipped a tentative toe back into politics. At a fund raiser for Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal at a downtown Washington steak house, Gore--still bearded and not yet back in fighting trim--tried out a few self-deprecating one-liners. He spends his days teaching a bit, he told the smallish room. "I'm a visiting professor--v.p. for short. It's a way of hanging on."
Three days later, Gore was thinking about another title: candidate's spouse. As word spread that Tipper Gore was considering a run for the...
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