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...Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris revealed that with 53 of the state's 67 counties reporting, George W. Bush was winning Florida by 1,784 votes. Which was the same count the AP had already forwarded to the chattering class for dispensing to the bound-to-be-curious-who-their-next-president-will-be viewing public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Florida Recount: Don't Hold Your Breath | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...idea that motive is everything, that two people caught in the midst of the same criminal action could have been acting for entirely different reasons and should be therefore punished differently. It's an admirable kind of liberalism and critical for democracy. But it does give rise to a curious kind of preempting as we put our political candidate's characters on trial against crimes which they may, in the future, commit...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Character in the News | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...which opens this week, interest in the three detectives of Charles Townsend Private Investigations has been rekindled. Hoping to cash in, the cable channel TV Land has been airing a lot of old Angels episodes. I hadn't seen one since childhood. So the other day I tuned in, curious to know whether my liberation memories would match up with the actual product, especially now that I have de Beauvoir and Ferraro and riot grrl under my belt. The episode was called Target: Angels. Kelly (Jaclyn Smith), Sabrina (Kate Jackson) and Jill (Farrah Fawcett) are being shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Liberated Angels | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...children while others wandered in and out of the play areas. Beneath the stairs there appeared to be some kind of workshop where men were hammering the pieces of a large machine - perhaps of the escalator for the nearby subway entrance. The people in the park were variously hostile, curious and friendly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange World of N. Korea's 'Great Leader' | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

...curious situation because when the AP broke the story, it turned out that the Army had not previously looked into this," May said...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Affirms Massacre Report | 10/25/2000 | See Source »

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