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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (24325)	3/17/1999 2:57:00 PM
From: SKIP PAUL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

LWIN's flat rate unlimited calling bodes well for Qualcomm and CDMA. This is a deal that the GSM camp simply cannot afford to match. Comments!!

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (24325)	3/17/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Sawtooth	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

OT Let the Games Begin! What's that I smell; why, could it be the aroma of some B.S. floating on the breeze? (Good end of day chuckle re: politicians.) Al Gore Paints Colorful Past By CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al Gore: small businessman, farmer, homebuilder, clearer of land and driver of mules. Despite his upbringing as the son of a senator, student at exclusive St. Albans school and graduate of Harvard, the vice president presented his past to Iowans this week as all sweat and no refinement. The Washington-born Gore spent youthful summers on a farm, owns one now and once dabbled in real estate. Nevertheless, questions have been raised about how he has portrayed his achievements ever since he opened his first presidential campaign, in 1988, using borrowed cows as a backdrop on announcement day. To Gore's defenders, the occasional embellishment or misstep is inconsequential in the context of such a long career under constant scrutiny. To critics, he has shown a vain streak likely to become increasingly exposed in the emerging campaign. Either way, his recent downhome adornments to a life dominated by politics have followed repeated digs by rival Bill Bradley. The former New Jersey senator claims to have had more varied career experiences than a vice president who ''spent most of his life in Washington.'' Bradley spent 17 years in Congress, about a year more than Gore. Opening his Iowa campaign, Gore spoke about how he was once a small-business person and a homebuilder. ''I lived on a farm,'' he went on, and learned how to plow a ''steep hillside'' with mules, clear land with an ax, hose out the hog waste and ''take up hay all day long in the hot sun.'' Gore's spokesman, Chris Lehane, said the vice president still owns his farm in Carthage, Tenn. -- the land now is leased -- and spent some time in the early 1970s in a real estate project as well as youthful summers as a family farm hand. ''These are all part of his life experience,'' Lehane said Wednesday, and when Gore goes around the country, ''he looks for the opportunity to share those life experiences.'' Republicans were quick to make hay of their own. Jim Nicholson, chairman of the Republican National Committee, addressed Gore in a statement, saying that when it comes to hog waste, ''you're shoveling a lot more of it right now than you ever did back then.'' Gore's hardly alone in stressing a common-touch background. Among Republicans, Lamar Alexander has opened this campaign without the trademark red plaid shirt that was meant to symbolize his own homespun qualities in 1996. The former Tennessee governor and federal cabinet secretary now says the shirt distracted from his message. Elizabeth Dole declares ''I'm not a politician'' as she prepares for a likely bid at the highest level of politics. Questions about Gore's past have surfaced ever the 1988 presidential campaign, which he began outside a county courthouse before inviting reporters to his Tennessee farm, where the cows were supplied from his father's land. Before that, Gore had claimed that he ''got a bunch of people indicted and sent to jail'' as a crusading newspaper reporter. Actually, his reporting contributed to bribery indictments but no one ended up in prison. Over a year ago, Gore claimed he and his wife were models for the romantic novel ''Love Story,'' leaving the author of that book ''befuddled.'' And last week, Gore suggested he had created the Internet. ''Earnest boastfulness does not play well,'' said William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine. As former chief of staff for Vice President Dan Quayle, Kristol knows how a public figure's blunders can blow up. ''Certain gaffes hurt when they fit into a stereotype,'' he said. ''I think Gore's comment taking credit for the Internet is an example of that.'' Andrei Cherny, senior speechwriter for Gore in 1997 and 1998, disputes that view. He also contends Gore, whose stiffness is the stuff of self-parody, will not become even more so out of fear of saying something silly. AP-NY-03-17-99 1618EST