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...problem is that up on the stage, when he tries to tell stories not about his reckless youth or his heroic comrades but about average Americans and their everyday lives, he is working with much dryer clay. He is best when he is angry, not empathic. He blazes with indignation that 12,000 military families are on food stamps while Congress approves a $325 million aircraft carrier the Pentagon doesn't want. But when the subject turns to the dining-room-table issues that top every list of voter concerns--education, health care, moral values--McCain seems to lose some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Power and The Story | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...ground zero of the de facto stop McCain movement recently, as a guest speaker at the Republican Governors Association at La Costa, a luxurious California resort with clay tennis courts, milk baths and valets dressed like footmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bush's New Fraternity Brothers | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...puzzling proverb requires thoughtful contemplation before its meaning becomes clear. Take Proverb 26:23, for example: "Like thick glaze on a cheap pot, ardent lips and an evil heart." "The thick glaze [of the pot] deceives the eyes," Kugel elegantly summarizes, "but underneath is crumbling clay." Similarly, "however much the lips of a flatterer or hypocrite may say pleasing things, underneath them is an evil schemer...

Author: By Matthew B. Sussman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kugel Riffs on Biblical Poesy | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...recently spotted interviewing CFO candidates while dressed in shorts, his shoeless feet propped up on the desk. Soon a former circus juggler will be leading visitors through a sculpting class in the Annex, where they will come across the newly hired CFO on her lunch hour. She is slapping clay on a wire figure while studying a live, totally nude model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pixar Animation Studios: Home of the Toys | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...seeing his first college action, won two matches in the "C" flight before bowing out in the third round. Junior Mike Rich, who had lost to Choo in three sets in the "B" singles, paired up with sophomore Cillie Swart and lost 8-4 to the No. 2 seed, Clay and Burns. Junior Steve Moore reached the "C" field quarterfinals before losing to Sonny Avichal of Army...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Lee, Choo Make Finals in M. Tennis Tourney | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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