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After weeks of watching the painful cat-and-RAT (seems more appropriate than "mouse") game between Bush and Gore, the two finally agreed on the conditions of the debates on Oct. 3, 11 and 17. The Commission on Presidential Debates requires any candidate to carry at least a 15 percent rating in the public opinion polls in order to participate. This is unfair to American citizens as well as to the candidates for the following reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let 'Em in the Debates! | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

...began lecturing health professionals at hospitals near his suburban home outside New York City. "There has to be more time given to patients," he said. "Doctors should have a knowledge of how difficult the tests are for patients. They should understand what it feels like to do a CAT scan and have diarrhea in the middle of the test." Most important: "Let patients do the talking. Learn to listen. Doctors give answers without listening to the questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

With a $60 million budget, Almost Famous vividly re-creates the '70s rock scene. And any movie with Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Simon & Garfunkel and the Chipmunks on the sound track can't go too far wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: As The Crowe* Flies | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...reminded of that grand old Yankee spinster who, when asked whether she regretted not having a husband, snapped, "I've got a parrot that swears, a stove that smokes and a cat that stays out nights--what do I want with a husband?" NANCY CAREY Benson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 18, 2000 | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...Nailing spies is hard. To stand a chance of putting them behind bars, you almost have to catch them in the act of forking over secrets. But in the Los Alamos case, the damage was already done, and so agents had to find a way to "walk the cat back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wen Ho Lee's Long Way Home | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

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