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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...talking to him, you get the sense he really cares about just one question: Who will keep you safer? Bush says "steady, strong leadership" is the card he puts on the table--he has stared down history. His rivals on the Democratic ticket, he suggests, are bound to blink. "If they're going to change one day, they may change again," he tells a Las Vegas crowd. "I think you need somebody who's gonna do what he says he's gonna do." Dick Cheney's version: "Indecision kills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Mind Of George W. Bush | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...spent his life reconciling opposites, not laboriously but in an instant, with the grace of an athlete, on the run. Through his eyes we see the universal in the specific, large issues in small things, mystery in the obvious, poetry in the mundane. We see infinity in the blink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

...white [basketball] player had, for instance, made monkey sounds to taunt a black player, it would have been a national controversy.” Yet O’Neal’s actions and words against Yao were just as despicable, and America didn’t even blink twice...

Author: By Rena Xu, | Title: The Perils of Tolerating Discrimination | 5/24/2004 | See Source »

Expectant moms should be prepared to give birth naturally and as happily as possible. I do not understand mothers who want C-sections and completely refuse to suffer to deliver their children. You cannot effortlessly take a baby out of the mother's womb in the blink of an eye like a magician. These women want their comfort, but do they care about what their babies feel? A baby can take an active part in birth when labor starts naturally. Of course, pain relief and Csections are useful and necessary in some cases. I am firmly in favor of providing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 10, 2004 | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...trend doesn’t stop with pre-packaged pop singers. After fading away for a few years, the precocious brat rockers of Blink-182 have also returned to heavy airplay on radio and MTV. Despite several years of legal squabbling and failed solo efforts, the Backstreet Boys—no joke—are reportedly heading to the studio to record another album. The album may flop worse than Ruben Studdard attempting a swan dive, but if it doesn’t, you read about it here first. More surprising and significant is the return of a number...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Art of the Hollywood Resurrection | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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