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The eldest Bush son couldn't resist at least one gag. Neil Bush, the former President's sweetest son by far, is also the most naive about politics. Neil was the one who got badly tangled up with some crooked Colorado bankers 10 years ago and never knew what hit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: What It Took | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

The real question in Palm Beach is whether this scandal will be bad for the Jews. After spending months being concerned that Joe Lieberman would be blamed for a Gore loss, they now have to fear that they themselves will be the scapegoat. But Mama Ann saw a potentially positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chosen People Who Can't Choose | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Despite everything, people have managed to emerge from the foster-care system to become pillars of society. In January a 23-month-old girl in Washington was beaten to death after a judge remanded her, despite inadequate paper work, to her mother's care. The case so affected Washington's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crisis Of Foster Care | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

After the war, Lewis directed the two films that established his reputation, the thrillers "My Name Is Julia Ross" (1945) and "So Dark the Night" (1946). Both films are as richly atmospheric and suspenseful as anything Hitchcock produced in the 1940s - "Julia Ross," in fact, plays like a shorter, creepier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art on a Budget: Joseph H. Lewis | 10/31/2000 | See Source »

Recently it has become fashionable to compare Gore to Michael Corleone in The Godfather, a soft idealist who becomes hard and cold and reconciled to the violence of the family business. But Gore's taste for political combat isn't acquired; it's innate. His prosecutorial streak was there when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Man Behind The Myths | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

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