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About the only redeeming quality of sports betting is the way it infuses even the dullest games with excitement. An inter-league, mid-season baseball game is a snoozer. But put $10 or $100 on it, and everyone starts to pay attention. The same thing is true with the war. There are many people out there who don’t live in big, target cities; their children won’t serve in the army either. For them, come peace or war, terror or security, their lives won’t be affected. So they don?...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Wage(r) War | 3/6/2003 | See Source »

...World Congress of Accountants is a summit where 5,000 bean counters meet to discuss the industry's searing issues, like solar vs. battery-powered calculators or the long-awaited switch to No. 3 pencils. Usually it would be the dullest four days this side of, well, a meeting with 5,001 accountants, but thanks to the bookkeeping debacles at kleptocorporations like Enron, once-ignored accountants are suddenly the mysterious bad boys of the corporate world. This year's congress was the perfect chance for the tarnished industry to pick itself up, dust itself off and blame Kenneth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Never Felt So Handsome | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...usually as thunderous, and joyfully welcomed, as the yearly monsoon. But Musharraf prefers it dull, and that is how it is: the Pakistan Muslim League and the PPP combined normally get more than 50% of the popular vote, but now their camps are apathetic, producing one of the dullest campaigns in memory. What Musharraf did not expect was the force that has filled the vacuum: an alliance of six hard-line religious parties that calls itself the Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). The MMA is volubly anti- American, as Sumbal, the five-year-old anti-Yankee rabble-rouser, demonstrates. More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General's Election | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

TADPOLE is American and therefore always looking nervously over its shoulder as it revisits that dullest of sexual cliches: the preppy (Aaron Stanford) lusting after an older woman, in this case his stepmom (Sigourney Weaver). He doesn't get her but does land her best friend, a chiropractor played by Bebe Neuwirth, in whom all this movie's comic energy is delightfully concentrated. Shot in a dull digital process by director Gary Winick, this is, alas, one weary ride--77 minutes that sometimes feel like that many hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Wicked Summer Romances | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...temples and cut ribbons at children's hospitals. Naruhito seems like a nice, serious guy, but he doesn't exactly set young girls' hearts aswooning. There was hope that Masako would rattle the gilded cages, but she has faded into royal anonymity. These are, frankly, the world's dullest monarchs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's Latest Craze | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

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