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...Xander is a self-starting, self-promoting charmer who is presumably unfit for any occupation other than star. Obsessed with dangerous exploits that require extreme athleticism, Xander sells black-market films of himself performing such stunts as stealing the Corvette of a right-wing Senator, driving it off a cliff and parachuting to safety. He's recruited by a U.S. security official (a scar-faced Samuel L. Jackson) to save the world from an East European anarchist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Next Action Hero | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...visited the Yosemite Valley and was given his first camera. As a young man, he worked as a custodian there and took long hikes through the mountains. "I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of the granite cliff ..." he wrote in his autobiography, adding that he wanted to establish Yosemite as "a sanctuary." For much of his life he fought to protect the places he loved, using his photographs as a lobbying tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Visions | 8/4/2002 | See Source »

...dropped 179 points by the end of the day. By now people know that capitalism is a spectacle of hope and greed and guts and guile, all racing toward the bottom line. That is its genius, but without guardrails, the whole contraption can take us over a cliff. On Wednesday the Senate voted 97-0 for a program far tougher than the one the President had proposed and even the Republicans in the House were climbing aboard. Unless Congress and the President get serious about reform, Senator John McCain warned in a combative speech, "the damage done by these scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer Of Mistrust | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...boom the way it has been. We won't get 8%, 9% annual increases in the average price of a house, but it won't collapse. It will go down to a 2%, 3% increase. I don't think it will fall off the face of a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forecast: A Jobless Recovery? | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

...dropped 179 points by the end of the day. By now people know that capitalism is a spectacle of hope and greed and guts and guile, all racing toward the bottom line. That is its genius, but without guardrails, the whole contraption can take us over a cliff. On Wednesday the Senate voted 97-0 for a program far tougher than the one the President had proposed and even the Republicans in the House were climbing aboard. Unless Congress and the President get serious about reform, Senator John McCain warned in a combative speech, "the damage done by these scandals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of Mistrust | 7/14/2002 | See Source »

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