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Democrats say Lieberman's winning a Funniest Celebrity in Washington contest shows he's not as dull as he once seemed. I was a judge, and, yes, he brought a cynical crowd to peals of laughter, but that was because of a dry, droll, double-take delivery suited to a small room. Lieberman's self-deprecating wit is unlikely to turn the Cheney-Lieberman debate into must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: The Joe That I Know | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...level manager suffering through a dull meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Psych 101 | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...China, as well, may dull Washington's appetite for a shield. The CIA also warned the White House last week that Beijing might respond to a U.S. missile defense by increasing its strategic missile force tenfold. China now has 20 nuclear-tipped ICBMs, but the CIA worries that it might expand that force so a U.S. shield doesn't render its strategic deterrence worthless. That's a possibility that's very real, and Washington has to take it seriously. The CIA intelligence on North Korea is based as much on guesswork as on hard facts, but the agency knows that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over Missiles, U.S. Ponders Whether a Rogue Is a Rogue | 8/11/2000 | See Source »

That only makes it harder to admit that most of what I'm watching is pretty dull stuff. Like Curtis, the straitlaced Asian-American attorney, scrubbing the toilet bowl. Or Jamie, the squeaky-clean beauty queen, grating cheese for nachos. Or those endless dissertations on the virtues of Dryel, the horrors of amoeba-induced diarrhea, the burning shame of bunions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm a Web Zombie | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...dull? A virtue, I'd say. See maturity, above. Cheney does have the disadvantage of not being John McCain. On the other hand, he has the virtue of not being John McCain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Add It All Up, and Cheney Is a Good Choice | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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