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...with Gore eagerly unspooling numbers, sighing during Bush's answers and constantly champing at Jim Lehrer's moderatorial bit, Bush held up. He swung back at the "pick-and-chooser" Gore's targeted tax cuts, and kept turning Gore's charges to the who-gets-the-surplus-money divide between him (hardworking taxpayers) and Gore (government, of course). And he came up with a handy Reaganesque response for whenever Gore puffed up the Adminstration's plans for any unsolved problem: "Why haven't you done it the last seven years?" If there was a stature gap between Gore and Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beantown Bout Is Close Enough for Bush | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

Finally I got to a machine, popped in my floppy, and tried to print my assignment. No go; the Mac gave me a stack-looking error message. Upon going into the Chooser to verify that my printer selection was correct, I noticed something amazing the printer in my house's computer lab, inaccessible from the machines in the same lab, was accessible from the Science Center...

Author: By Eugene Koh, | Title: The Help Desk | 10/25/1994 | See Source »

...picker and chooser of ways and means, he turns a neat trick on a bunch of Chinese by arranging to ferry them over from Cuba to the Keys, accepts their money, then kills their leader and abandons the rest. Then his luck turns bad. A flier at rum-running results in the confiscation of his boat, the loss of an arm. So the way is paved to the last, most desperate venture of all-an attempt to provide a getaway, in a borrowed boat, for a quartet of bank robbers fleeing from a hold-up at Key West. Morgan knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books 1937: TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT by Ernest Hemingway | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Pickers & Choosers. "All good theories go to America when they die." In the case of Freud this was at least half right. With a thoroughness unmatched elsewhere in the world, psychoanalysis has found its citadel in the U.S. its founder despised. Most of the nation's 750,000 mental patients in understaffed state hospitals still are not reached by modern theory or practice. But the progressive states making radical and energetic attacks on the problem of mental illness are doing so under the leadership of psychiatrists who owe most of their orientation to Freud. Even among psychiatrists who confine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Hitler was full of haste last week. He wanted to crush the Russians at once. If he did not, if the war dragged into the winter, he might no longer be the chooser of campaigns. He was an old hand at breaking promises, but there was one promise-made, not to statesmen of the so-called plutocracies, but to his own people-that he did not want to break, for his power could break with it. He made it on the last day of 1940: "The year 1941 will bring consummation of the greatest victory in our history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, PSYCHOLOGICAL FRONT: Week of Climax | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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