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...Bedroom because he doesn't much like hotels. But the overall goal of running an outsider campaign came naturally. Bush has been President for only four years but has always been a punk at heart--the guy who in 1973 used to walk around Harvard during antiwar protests wearing cowboy boots and a bomber jacket, who was an outsider even in his own, high-achieving family (the black sheep, he once told the Queen of England). Forty-one newspapers that endorsed Bush back when he ran as a pragmatic reformer revoked their support this time around. But that just made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Year | 12/19/2004 | See Source »

...what is needed to make the mullahs' regime crumble, fault the Europeans for giving the mullahs a way out. "I love George Bush," says Hassan, 22, a businessman awaiting a flight at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. "He wants freedom for Iranians, and he's against terrorism. He's a cowboy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Still Defiant | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Parents who are worried that their children are too immersed in pop culture might take comfort in knowing that their forebears had similar fears in 1950, when kids couldn't get enough of TV cowboy HOPALONG CASSIDY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 54 Years Ago In Time | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...time), but spent millions of kiddie-hours squinting hypnotically at the 35 shows offered them on flickering television screens. The kiddies exhibited a leaping enthusiasm for the new and massive doses of entertainment offered by video. Overnight, almost every little boy and girl in the nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered periods which they spent outdoors between programs, they saw cattle rustlers around every corner. They were not the first U.S. children to indulge in make-believe about the Old West. But they were the first to catch the fever simultaneously from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 54 Years Ago In Time | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...This election proves what most of the world has known for a while: the U.S. has become a country of uneducated, fundamentalist-Christian fools who choose to be misled and driven into debt by a crazy cowboy. The U.S. has lost any legitimacy to be the sole world power. Brazil, China, Europe, Japan and Russia should join together to make sure that this irresponsible President does not get away with ruining our planet any more than he and his Administration already have. Even though we are not allowed to vote for the best candidate for the U.S. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

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