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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...other when doing so suits his purpose. That makes each man's camp more than a little nervous. Kennedy often thrives during a Republican Administration. He despised Jimmy Carter and suffered in silence as Bill Clinton tilted to the center. During a G.O.P. Administration, he is freer to bend Democrats to his agenda without competition from a President of his party. And Bush realized before he arrived in Washington that he would have to go through Kennedy to pass his domestic agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Best For The Patient? | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

...which A.I. is based, in 1983. Spielberg has shot multiple films in one year, and in his spare time he helps run the DreamWorks film studio. Spielberg has the warmest of directorial styles; Kubrick's is among the coolest. One aims to seduce the audience; the other wanted to bend moviegoers to see it his way, or to hell with them. The resulting fugue is like a piece composed for brass but played on woodwinds, a Death Valley map on which Spielberg has placed seeds, hoping they will somehow blossom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A.I. Spielberg's Strange Love | 6/25/2001 | See Source »

...which A.I. is based, in 1983. Spielberg has shot multiple films in one year, and in his spare time he helps run the DreamWorks film studio. Spielberg has the warmest of directorial styles; Kubrick's is among the coolest. One aims to seduce the audience; the other wanted to bend moviegoers to see it his way, or to hell with them. The resulting fugue is like a piece composed for brass but played on woodwinds, a Death Valley map on which Spielberg has placed seeds, hoping they will somehow blossom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'A.I.' — Spielberg's Strange Love | 6/17/2001 | See Source »

...someone else's car--drew national attention by applying his ruling to so many at one time. His move sparked a debate on the rights of these offenders and the merits of public shaming. "We don't brand people in America," argues Gerald Rogen, president of the Coastal Bend Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. "And we damn sure don't punish the offender's family as well as the offender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Scarlet Letter | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...quoted President Bush's statement that McVeigh "is lucky to be in America...a country who will bend over backwards to make sure that his constitutional rights are guaranteed." But in many of the world's developed countries, there is no capital punishment. Unless McVeigh lived in one of the rogue states we in the U.S. deplore, he would not be facing a state-ordered execution! How is he "lucky to be in America"? (THE REV.) JAMES WOOD Bohemia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 11, 2001 | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

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