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Davis argues that he inherited the problem from the botched 1995 deregulation plan. "People said, 'Why didn't you act sooner?' It's because, like a runner looking for daylight, I was waiting to see how I could solve this problem." Since December, Davis, renowned as a micromanager, has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights Out For Davis? | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

A critic caused quite a stir a few years ago by reviewing the Bill T. Jones dance production "Still/Here" by not reviewing it, saying that she would not actually watch the performance because she found the underlying conceit of the show (AIDS patients perform dances about their illness) to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 'Survivor' Virgin | 1/26/2001 | See Source »

The last time a team as boring as these Giants made the Super Bowl, it was January 1991, and the winning team was... another boring Giants team. Ah, but what a game it was, a 20-19 final in the closest - and perhaps the best - Super Bowl ever. Even in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl XXXV Preview | 1/24/2001 | See Source »

And since when is a dominating defense boring? When reminiscing about Pittsburgh's Steel Curtain of the '70s, the words bore and snore don't come to mind. And there's no record of Super Bowl alumni Mike Singletary and Lawrence Taylor putting fans to sleep in the mid-'80s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Bowl XXXV Preview | 1/24/2001 | See Source »

The horror of this final wait for the Bottom is what really drains me. As the ratio of time spent studying to time until the Bottom increases without limit, my interest in things unrelated to schoolwork increases proportionally. The smallest curiosity, the dullest barb can hook my attention for hours...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Rack of Reading Period | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

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