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...opponent, by brilliant casting, is the finger-wagging, candle-snuffing, take-no-prisoners mayor of New York, controversial, superbly effective, much hated in certain quarters. The polls show a close race; Hillary and Rudy both provoke passionate reactions, pro and con, and have obdurate followings in the 40 percentage-plus range. Hillary, politically tone-deaf, makes a neophyte's stupid mistakes. The carpetbagger issue only seems to get worse for her as the months pass. Dark clouds move in. A surprising number of women in both parties confess to being allergic to Hillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary's Luck Takes Many Forms | 5/19/2000 | See Source »

TUCKER CARLSON Neo-con reporter held by Viet gov. Freed, your anticommie bona fides perfect

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 8, 2000 | 5/8/2000 | See Source »

...opposite of the fast-talking politicians, McCain was a maverick and someone who spoke from the heart with his "straight talk." But a May 9th smoke-filled room summit with Republican nominee Texas Gov. George W. Bush may finally reveal the truth about one of the most brilliant political con-jobs of the modern...

Author: By Brad R. Sohn, | Title: The Real McCain? | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Sometimes Norton is the soft guy: a lawyer helping a porn king (Larry Flynt), a fellow whose girlfriend falls for a convict (Everyone Says I Love You), a despondent drone surrendering to the spell of a pummeling anarchist (Fight Club). Sometimes he's the bad boy: an ex-con luring a respectable pal into the gambling underworld (Rounders) or a neo-Nazi with an impressionable kid brother (American History X). And once or twice--in his heralded movie debut Primal Fear, for example--he is both mild and wild, with schizophrenic tendencies bubbling up at whim or will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norton Exposure | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...sleep in a large building filled with total strangers. Once, communities were linked by at least a four-in-12 sort of preference; now, living together in a House is a coincidence less instructive than matching section times. What would be better? All plans have their pro's and con's, but at least three, in my mind, might provide a better solution...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: The Death of the Houses | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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