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...TIME congressional correspondent Douglas Waller spoke with TIME.com Tuesday about the competing bills - and what Republicans hope to accomplish before the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Patients' Bill of Rights: Republicans Count their Votes | 7/24/2001 | See Source »

...religion, history and international affairs—present glaringly important and intriguing questions. And yet I would wake up every morning in my small room off of Zion Square gripped by the same desperate question: What on earth am I doing here? Really, what am I going to accomplish...

Author: By P. PATTY Li, | Title: POSTCARD FROM JERUSALEM: Studying the Middle East | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...sick of people who try to accomplish the improbable regardless of the cost to others. I'd have had more respect for Erik if he'd spent all those months at home with his beautiful baby, showing her what a great dad he could be. MICHAEL GRAFF Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 9, 2001 | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...statue of a woman is as menacing as the crow perched on Hedren's arm in another Halsman photo. The effect of all these juxtapositions is eerie: instead of lessening the impact of Hitchcock's imagery by dissecting and explaining it, they reinforce the effect he was striving to accomplish. So visitors exiting the museum should beware of the pigeons on Place Georges Pompidou. Just as Hitchcock intended, all of a sudden they look surprisingly threatening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fine Art of Fear | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...Malaprop, a golf-playing, crony-loving dim bulb. But Stephen Ambrose, in his classic biography of Eisenhower, describes how Ike deliberately mangled the language to put reporters off the track or to get them to think that he didn't fully comprehend the issues. Ike found that he could accomplish more when people thought he might not be up to the task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why George Bush is the Brer Rabbit of American Politics | 6/21/2001 | See Source »

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