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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...from that sometimes because people don't know what to make of someone so forthright. They feel as if they want to protect her. But she is a real survivor, and the key to her success as an artist is that she has managed to survive without putting the armor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songwriter: Lucinda Williams | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...LEFTY LOOSEY, RIGHTY TIGHTY The screwdriver is the only major mechanical tool not independently invented by the Chinese. An early use of screws was by medieval jousting knights to fasten their armor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History Writ Small | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...president also has to tend to conservative members in his own party. Republican senators are drafting dozens of amendments to pick apart the Democrats' measure. "It's going to be hit by armor-piercing incendiaries," vows GOP conservative Phil Gramm. White House aides laugh at Gramm's colorful opposition, but conservatives are angry about a series of administration apostasies on education, taxes and defense. There is no great rush to give Dashcle his first victory. But the White House knows that passage may mean fighting through a filibuster threat from members of its own party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle over the Patients' Bill of Rights | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...later, Kerrey recalls, the squad spotted four or five huts by the faint flicker of candles inside. Then out of the night came the whine of gunfire. "We returned it," says Kerrey, giving the order for his men to unleash a ferocious barrage of automatic rifle rounds, grenades and armor-piercing rockets. In the flashing tracer light, no one could see who was being hit. The assault lasted only a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog of War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...later, Kerrey recalls, the squad spotted four or five huts by the faint flicker of candles inside. Then out of the night came the whine of gunfire. "We returned it," says Kerrey, giving the order for his men to unleash a ferocious barrage of automatic rifle rounds, grenades and armor-piercing rockets. In the flashing tracer light, no one could see who was being hit. The assault lasted only a few minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fog Of War | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

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