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...This week, though, it's more of Round Two of Bush's blackmail-the-legislator tour, in which he takes the stump in the home state of an influential (and wavering) senator or representative and urges cheering crowds to write or call said senator/representative in support of Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Bush Bite the Bullet on Taxes? | 3/27/2001 | See Source »

Soon enough, both self-alleged Lucans tell Wolf that they know who she really is, or was. These two men, one of whom may actually be the missing earl, are evidently conspiring to blackmail their psychiatrist, and she goes into hiding once again, to plan a counteroffensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Game of Rat And Louse | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...compensation for the 1986 bombings and the crippling economic sanctions that followed. Gaddafi's words, which were much more strident than the initial Libyan response to the verdict, naturally found support in Tripoli editorials the next day. The Green March daily called the verdict "an open attempt to blackmail the Libyan people and to control its free revolutionary will, which has earned the respect of world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lockerbie Verdict: Case Closed? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...split hairs.) With U.S. sailors dead in a likely terrorist attack on a Navy ship in the Persian Gulf and Israel bombing Palestinian headquarters in retaliation for a Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers (and with Iraq threatening to suspend crude production in some wacky euro-support blackmail scheme and Venezuela mired in oil-labor troubles) there was only one commodity scarcer than confidence Thursday, and that was black gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gulf War Ghosts Make Things Spooky on Wall St. | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

...columnist (whom they long maintained was gay) for helping celebrities keep closeted by passing on their stories of heterosexual relationships, implying that homosexuality is the one secret too filthy for even a gossip to reveal. Smith says that she has always opposed outing--she once helped Rock Hudson "counter-blackmail" a woman who threatened to expose him--and that she doesn't like to define herself in terms of her love life. So why write about her two marriages or her childhood "molestation" by an older cousin ("I had rather enjoyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liz Outs Self! (Sorta!) | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

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