The Year in Pictures 2000

August
"The Kiss" is perhaps the high point of Al Gore's convention, a crowd — (and Tipper) — stunning PDA. For the next week reporters and pundits parsed — was it spontaneous? Was the wooden Gore trying to send a message to the public that he, too, had passion? The man's explanation: "I was trying to send a message to Tipper."

• Person of the Year 2000: George W. Bush