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...something wrong with the plane - a part has gone wrong, so they're going to try to fix the part (which could take three hours) or order the part (which could take two days). I decide that, in airline speak, the same argot which calls a muffin a breakfast and a strip of rotten chicken an entree, three hours means nine hours and "could take two days" means the plane is going down in a fiery ball of flame. I rebook my trip through Miami and figure I'll take my chances getting out of there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock in Rio, Part 3 | 1/18/2001 | See Source »

...burials, she "realized something was happening out there. At every town, people waited for hours holding candles. Farmers held their hats over their hearts. Children waved flags." More than 10,000 letters came in. She recalled one of her husband's favorite lines when he would leave the breakfast-room hearth, "Don't let the fire go out," and a week before the vote, she decided she would serve should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mrs. Carnahan Goes To Washington | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...part series introduced four young couples who apparently want to use a Fox reality show as a form of couples counseling. They seemed to have been chosen from a sign-up table at Greek Week: watching their last dinner together before their separation was like your worst bed-and-breakfast communal-meal nightmare come to life. (Sample quote: "It's like taking the Pepsi Challenge, but having the ladies be the actual soft drink.") But more depressing were the Tempters/tresses, who were marched in like breeding cattle and barely introduced before going off to the resort compounds where they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Wasn't Tempted by 'Temptation Island' | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

...stopped going to church this week, how he stopped driving his trash to the dump the next, how he stopped getting up for lunch, then breakfast, then...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Learning About Love | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

...That was the primary purpose of Bush's well-handled Breakfast at Greenspan's last week. It's also why an ALCOA tin man is heading up Bush's treasury: Paul O'Neill, and Dick Cheney, go back three decades with the fed chairman, and a good relationship with the Fed can be a big help, especially when your old man didn't get along so well with Al. Greenspan will get his chance to sign off when he testifies before Congress this winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Selling of the Tax Cut: First Stop Greenspan | 12/27/2000 | See Source »

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