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It's not much of a stretch to see all these investigations and authority figures as a kind of shadow 9/11 drama. (Who is stern-talking Oprah protege Dr. Phil, after all, but a more down-home John Ashcroft?) Hollywood's crime stories were neither uniformly authoritarian nor bleeding heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Big Fat Year in Culture | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

7. Verbal Economizer There is a joke about the Vice President that his friends like to tell. "Dick Cheney is always at an undisclosed location," they say, "even when he's sitting right in front of you." For the taciturn Cheney, discretion has been the key to power and influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Clues To Understanding Dick Cheney | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

Originally a Victorian parlor game, bunco made its way to the U.S. in the mid-1850s as a gambling game known first as "banco" and later as "bunco" or "bunko." During the Gold Rush, a crooked gambler in San Francisco is said to have used the game to bilk some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food, Talk, Dice: Hey, It's Bunco Time! | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

$10,500 was the bargain amount paid at a bankruptcy auction for Enron's "Crooked E," a sign that used to mark the disgraced company's headquarters; two other E's went for $15,000 and $45,000 earlier this year

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

Senior kicker Anders Blewett followed up with the first missed PAT of his career, putting Harvard ahead by a crooked number.

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SILVER LINING: With gritty victory in 119th Game, Football salvages second place in Ivies | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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