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...That is really old," Bush wrote. "It's a good thing your wife is so young and beautiful"). But last week in Texas, Bush allies claimed Bush never fully trusted Lay, and they portrayed Lay as a classic cowboy type--all hat and no cattle--a braggart who pretended to enjoy better access to Bush than he really had. "Lay reminds me of one of those boys who shoots in the sky and claims he hit everything that falls," says Mark Stiles, a Democrat and former state legislator who was close to Bush. "Lay was just a glad-hander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trail Out Of Texas | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

Country boy. Braggart. Jester. Rebel. Daredevil. Heroic champion athlete. Muhammad Ali symbolizes so much of our unconscious American identity and so much of what it is about us that has universal appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ali In History: An American Original | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...tall, crew-cut young man lifted a Maccabi beer bottle and bragged like a high school quarterback after a perfect touchdown pass. His friends sat around him, munching falafel at a simple restaurant in a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Their faces shone with admiration. The braggart pointed to his M-16A3. On the barrel of the assault rifle, with its special adjustments for use by a sniper, was a 2-in. silver cross etched into the black metal. "I got my first kill, and my commander put this on the gun for me," said the 20-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fields Of Fire | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...trail; one of the culprits "was a little sloppy." Following up on those clues may take some time, particularly since authorities have to figure out constitutional search-and-seizure issues before they begin grabbing electronic evidence. Meanwhile, agents trawled chat rooms looking for the slightest hint of a pseudonymous braggart. Old-fashioned detective work on the cyberbeat is "probably the best we're going to do in this case," says Shawn Hernan of Carnegie Mellon University's computer emergency response team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind The Hack Attack | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

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