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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...repentant Atwater died of brain cancer before he could slice and dice Bill Clinton in 1992, and Bob Dole was too honorable to try in 1996. But the arrival of George W. Bush and Rove - an Atwater protégé - brought August back with a vengeance in 2000 and, spectacularly, with the "independent" Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Bush Taught McCain | 8/28/2008 | See Source »

...into the city's parks and local historical attractions and museums, betting that aesthetic improvements will draw business investment. "People make choices on where they want to live and businesses make choices about where they want to be identified with," Doherty says. "You have to make your place attractive." Bob Casey, the state's junior Senator and a Scranton native, believes the city has turned the corner - "but it's one of those long, long, winding corners," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Win Biden's Hometown? | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

...were probably disappointed. A number of speakers tried to tie the Republican nominee to incumbent President Bush, figuring that ought to be as lethal as a bathtub tied to a Channel swimmer. Noting that McCain sides with Bush 90% of the time, according to some estimates, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey Jr. declared, "That's not a maverick. That's a sidekick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Delivers for Obama | 8/27/2008 | See Source »

After my initial excitement, I figured that the table tennis elite must actually whack through their paddles pretty quickly, and maybe needed some sort of pit station for repairing their rubber. But not being a ping pong - sorry, table tennis - aficionado, I asked Bob Fox, team leader for USA Table Tennis, for some help, and found out how wrong I was. "They don't worry about the rubber falling off the paddle," he explained. Fox said the pros apply glue to the paddles and use its tackiness to their advantage. "The effect is one of increasing the speed and spin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sticky Business of Table Tennis | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...swimming program that might feature more of the marquee events like sprints, he won't make any decisions about that until he comes back from a long vacation. "When we train every day, and sometimes we do sets or workouts we don't like, Bob says it's putting money in the bank, and at the end of the year we'll be able to withdraw," said Phelps. "I guess we put a lot of money in the bank over the last four years, and we withdrew pretty much every penny. So after Bob and I both take a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Phelps Made Swimming History | 8/17/2008 | See Source »

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