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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...protect and who prefers to go to sleep in his own bed, usually before 10 p.m., to plunge from state to state as though his own survival depended on it, when in fact the opposite is true? The sheer nerve of the White House strategy left even enemies in awe. "What they did was risky as hell," marvels Tony Coelho, a veteran operative who served as chairman of Al Gore's 2000 campaign. "They rolled the dice, they won, and now Bush has a huge mandate. It's not about 9/11 anymore. He is the legitimate President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: W. and the Boy Genius | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...soul. (?The Untold Story? manages this with the rape scene; ?Dr. Lamb? does it with Simon Yam?s obsessive sexual defiling of his latest corpse.) And the Cat III director?s game was to out-gross the competition, leaving the audience and his colleagues slack-jawed in flummoxed awe. That?s the only apt response to ?Red to Kill,? the masterpiece in the ITMFG collection - the killer vase among these grisly movie antiques. (The film is available in the U.S. on video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Hong Kong Horrors! | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...dreaded Harvard. Rivers says that when she broke the news, he “straightened himself and backed away from me, taking me in with this remote, detached look of awe...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Power of the H-Bomb | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...other woman responded. There was awe in her voice...

Author: By Katie Disalvo, | Title: Nicer Not Necessary | 10/11/2002 | See Source »

...away with his health. Elsey saved a couple of papers with the President's signature; firm, strong in 1942, quaky and feeble by 1945. "When Churchill entered the room, he seemed to fill it," says Elsey. "His reputation, the aura that preceded him, was so great. We were in awe." Captain Ogden Kniffin, Elsey's Army counterpart, made it a practice on night duty to remove and hang up his uniform to keep it unwrinkled for morning show. Once, about 4:30 a.m., the door flew open and Churchill entered. The mortified Kniffin stood at attention in his underwear, wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How a Secret Room Got Its Start in WWII | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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