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Clark's new stump speech has a quality not often found in political oratory: it is charming. He is able, somehow, to shed his brass and re-create his lonely, impoverished childhood in Arkansas: his patriotic attempt to master chemistry and build a backyard rocket after the Russians launched Sputnik; his decision, at age 5, to attend the Baptist church in Little Rock because the stained-glass windows reminded him of the Methodist church he'd attended in Chicago before his father died; his struggle to raise a family on a military salary; the car he totally rebuilt because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Question All the Candidates Must Face | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

PRESIDENT BUSH IS VIEWED BY SOME ABROAD AS AN ARROGANT COWBOY. YOU RECENTLY HAD TO FIRE YOUR U.N. AMBASSADOR FOR SAYING BUSH TREATS MEXICO LIKE HIS "BACKYARD." WHAT DO YOU AND YOUR COUNTRYMEN REALLY THINK OF BUSH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Vicente Fox | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

With such short notice, many HLS students hadn’t even noticed that a construction site had sprung up in their own backyard...

Author: By Claire G. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law Students Lace Up Their Skates | 1/16/2004 | See Source »

...DIED. EARL HINDMAN, 61, actor best known for his intentionally obscured role as Wilson, a neighbor who offered backyard counsel to handyman Tim Taylor in the sitcom Home Improvement but whose face was forever hidden behind a fence; in Stamford, Connecticut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/4/2004 | See Source »

...month delay, it handed over no original documents, only 16 pages of letters referring to other documents. That stonewalling has outraged the victims and their families. "You can't have a country like Britain waltzing around as the moral policeman of the world and ignoring concerns in its own backyard," says Greg O'Neill, a lawyer for the victims. He and other victims are weighing whether to sue the British government, both for compensation and in hopes of getting closer to the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Troubling Report | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

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