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...Californians say they don't sit around worrying about earthquakes and mudslides; that they don't care when two professional football teams leave the state's largest city inside of three months; or that in the world capital of nutcase extremists, the guy who really seemed like an odd duck a year ago was Gray Davis, a nerdy gubernatorial candidate who claimed he would govern from the center, of all places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray Davis: The Most Fearless Governor in America | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation is not for the faint-hearted audience. No, this yearly festival of short cartoon pieces--which helped make Beavis and Butthead and South Park, among others, famous--is not to be confused with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Craig "Spike" Decker, co-creator and producer of "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" along with the late Mike Gribble, said he was aiming for an audience of "drug-addicts, students, partiers, ravers, punk rockers, hippies, and Siamese twins - two for the price of one." No, this is not an understatement...

Author: By Dunia Dickey and Jennifer Paniza, S | Title: Cinemanic: More Sick, More Twisted | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

Usually voters wait for a candidate to get elected before they start demanding favors. Then again, most would-be officeholders don't share a home with the President of the U.S. And with this President a lame duck, interest groups and activists have lately decided that Hillary, the aspiring Senator from New York, is the Clinton to go to in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy One, Get One Free? | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

While survival for her means running for office, for the lame-duck vacationer it means golf and reading. On his first day of vacation, Clinton was seen carrying a new mystery, Cold Hit by Linda Fairstein; by the time he left for the Hamptons, he had read that and several others. There's a rocking chair in Skaneateles with his name on it. Hillary will once again be fund raising. The torch has been passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunny Days Are Here Again | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...addition to signaling a brief respite in duck shoe wearing (to be resumed during the next rain) and the return of the Tufted Tit Mouse from its winter hospices in South America, the changing weather conditions mean that attending a Harvard sporting event is more convenient...

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: It's That Time of The Year | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

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