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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Normally, institutional status--including friendships with Presidents and a (literal) warehouseful of humanitarian awards--is death for a comic. But he prevailed, mostly because of the reservoir of goodwill he had stored up by entertaining the American military on all its battlefields, in all its wars, for a half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bob Hope: The Machine-Age Comic | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

The best of Lewis will live as long as there is a Guatemala, a Sicily or a Burma to be drawn toward. But when he moved on, a certain way of seeing the world (with affection, wit and style), and a certain way of describing it (with unflappable wryness) moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appreciation | 7/28/2003 | See Source »

I'm not alone in my affection. Kai Tak closed five years ago this month, but many still refer to it like a much-loved, weirdo uncle who's no longer around?one who will be forever remembered because he broke all the rules and made you gasp while doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plane Spotter's Lament | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

With Kai Tak gone, many Hong Kong residents are understandably proud of its replacement, Chek Lap Kok (its drab proper name is the Hong Kong International Airport). It is undoubtedly a well-designed, efficient, world-class facility. Inside it is everything Kai Tak wasn't?spacious, airy and, with an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plane Spotter's Lament | 7/21/2003 | See Source »

The second lesson is an old standby: there is no such thing as something for nothing. Indeed, these free gifts—marvelous tokens of affection which are hurled at visitors so carelessly—are not just handed out willy-nilly, but rather are part of an exchange between...

Author: By David S. Hirsch, | Title: Marketed in Manhattan | 7/18/2003 | See Source »

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