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...Eggers thus became the guardian of his eight-year-old brother Toph (short for Christopher) and moved from suburban Chicago to California. It's a hilarious book, despite the subject, that applies McSweeney's textual slyness full-force. The acknowledgments contain a guide to themes and symbols (and a chart of his advance and expenses), and his subjects frequently break out of character to note how Eggers has altered events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dave Eggers' Mystery Box | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...Clinton has delivered an ambitious budget proposal, the Republican-controlled Congress has to decide how far to put its foot down - and how much to risk alienating an electorate about to go to the polls to pick a new commander in chief. It was all there Monday morning - Clinton, chart at his back and Magic Marker in hand, announcing a host of Great Society-esque initiatives, including generous spending on education and health benefits for the poor. "Election years are the best time for a president to get his agenda passed," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Presents GOP With Budget Dilemma | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...Luke's--Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, where the medical staff has been cut 15% to 20% over the past five years even as the number of visits has risen 25%. "I get letters from patients every day saying, 'You made a mistake and put the wrong diagnosis on the chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Condition | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...history. Bleak and Brechtian in style, it has no overt political message; no easy, retroactive moralizing about the sins of our ancestors. Achieving the nation's "Manifest Destiny," it implies, was not a great quest or a great crime but a kind of communal neurosis, a manic need to chart the uncharted--an endeavor people in the play are constantly, fuzzily describing as "freedom." Yet those great white spaces of terra incognita on the map are being filled in faster than the maps can be redrawn, and the result is something like a mass nervous breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Go West, Young Man | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...practice applying this principle over the past 10 years. Our corporation's mergers with Warner Communications and then Turner Broadcasting created the world's largest media company, with sprawling and entangled interests (see chart, page 40). But we believe our record will show that we have not favored or disfavored the products of any company. Nor have we shied away from covers on topics--violence in the media and degrading music lyrics come to mind--that questioned the practices of the media industry, including Time Warner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Merger and Our Journalism | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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