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...First, the EPA chief indicated Sunday that after gauging the opposition to Alaskan oil drilling, her boss was going green and beating a strategic retreat. "Look, nobody's deaf, dumb and blind over there, and everybody knows the environment is important, and we saw how things have been portrayed," EPA chief Christie Whitman said on ABC Sunday. Drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge "has to go through the Congress in order to happen, and it's very difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Christie Whitman Being Groomed as White House's Good Cop? | 4/24/2001 | See Source »

...three years, and he thinks he can survive that long. And, of course, that gives him a deeply personal stake in winning his campaign. One South African reporter, commending Achmat on his noble stand, drew a withering response: "I don't think it's noble, I think it's dumb," Achmat answered. "But it's a conscience issue. It's not something I advocate for anyone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South African AIDS Activist Zackie Achmat | 4/19/2001 | See Source »

...smart can be dumb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson John Kennedy Learned From the Bay of Pigs | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...never wrote the book, but others have examined those dark three days of April 196l and the chain of ignorance sustained by arrogance is plain to see. The best and brightest can be pretty dumb when self-adoration takes over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson John Kennedy Learned From the Bay of Pigs | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

When the economy was going full tilt, investors extrapolated rising corporate earnings further into the future than any expansion had ever lasted. Dumb. Booms always bust. And now that the bust is here, shortsighted investors are acting as if there will never be another boom. Dumb squared. Early in a downturn, as now--not late in an expansion--is when you should take the long view in determining if a stock is fairly priced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bargain Bin | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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