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...matter. From the minute someone starts talking about an issue, Bush is itching for a recommendation. As Albert Hawkins, his state budget director, says, "If you're going on too long, he tells you so." Says Bush: "I like to hear someone enunciate a position, pro or con. Because if someone cannot explain a position, that generally means they don't understand the issue well enough to be part of the decision-making process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Why Bush Doesn't Like Homework | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...NAME PRO CON THE ZIPS Cool, fresh, sexy; Reminiscent of icky instant street cred Clinton thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Ain't the Tenties | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...after being convicted of trying to have his boss killed, a charge St. Martin's said it had confirmed. Hatfield initially maintained that he was being confused with someone of the same name, but then stopped commenting, on his lawyers' advice. Maybe he could write a memoir instead: Unfortunate Con...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Bobby gets a lot of tough love at home. As suave and polite as he seems to outsiders, he has "two personalities," says his stepmother Willie. "He's a con artist." His parents kicked him out of the house in August, trying to scare him after he came home drunk at 5 a.m. Later his father told him to do something, and Bobby refused. "I got tired of hearing what he wasn't going to do," says Bobby Sr., who smacked him with a stick, hurting his feelings more than anything. Bobby walked to a gas station and called police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wednesday: 7:01 P.M. Home And Away | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

HUPD officers were waiting at Hollis when the trio returned from dinner. At the time, O'Reilly was wearing a Harvard Business School T-shirt. According to McNamara, con artists who prey on students often wear school-related apparel...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Hunt for Homeless Intruder | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

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