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...like the Jim Carrey movie, Dumb and Dumber," said Scott MacKay, a reporter for the Providence Journal...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalists Debate the Role of Media in Elections | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

Lemann said that journalists invited to speak with Bush come back saying, "He's not as dumb as I thought he would...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Journalists Debate the Role of Media in Elections | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...plays Mona Hubbard, a young woman willing to do anything--including hiding the fact that she's an unwed mother--in order to win beauty contests. Driver's an intelligent actress, but you don't quite believe that a smart woman would spend so much time on such a dumb mission. Still, the film captures the frenzy for cheap renown with nicely curdled expertise, and Joey Lauren Adams is wonderful as Mona's faithful, hard-pressed best friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beautiful | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...back," as they like to say, and prove the crime in retrospect. That makes spy catching even harder, but the FBI didn't do itself any favors. Bureau sources concede that when the probe was opened in May 1996, it was left to second-string agents. "It was dumb and dumber," says a bureau veteran. "They put the wrong people to investigate it, and they didn't give it sufficient oversight from headquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Way Home | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...slightly weird, in any case, that presidential candidates have to submit to ordeal by Oprah. It makes one wonder whether it is George Bush who's dumb, or something in the culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: George W.'s Ordeal by Oprah | 9/20/2000 | See Source »

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