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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap operas like Elian Gonzalez, through the surpassingly surreal business that began with Monica Lewinsky's blue dress (talk about the lowest note) and culminated in the impeachment of a president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Public Ever Tire of This Mess? | 11/15/2000 | See Source »

...Whichever man wins the convoluted set of Florida courtroom encounters more reminiscent of an Elian Gonzalez miniseries than electoral politics, the unavoidable reality remains this: The election was essentially a tie. Gore may have edged out Bush in the popular vote, and Bush may have the lead in electoral votes, or vice versa. In addition, the electorate split the Senate 50-50 (pending a result from Washington State), and narrowed the GOP majority in the House to eight seats. Whether the hand on the Bible at January's inaugural belongs to Bush or to Gore, the next president will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has America Become a Headless Superpower? | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

...honest man yields no clear answer, as there have been plenty of falsehoods to go around. The contradictory demands on candidates almost always result in statements that strain credulity--that Texas has never executed an innocent man, say, or that one has always believed that the case of Elian Gonzalez belongs in family court. The presidential debates were full of misstatements on both sides, although one may dispute whether the mistaken anecdotes of Caley Ellis's desk and Winifred Skinner's aluminum cans are more or less important than a false claim to have supported a Patient's Bill...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: Of Candidates and Character | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

...finally goes, no one will miss it as much as Fidel Castro. That much was clear Wednesday when the Cuban strongman led a reported 800,000 people in a protest march along Havana's oceanfront to denounce Washington's latest adjustments to the 38-year embargo. Now that little Elian Gonzalez is back at school, the embargo remains the most useful tool in Castro's ideological shed: It provides both an all-purpose excuse for the privations suffered by his people since the collapse of Cuban socialism's Soviet patron, and a nationalist rallying point against the yanqui just across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Castro Makes Hay in Embargo's Twilight | 10/19/2000 | See Source »

...concluded that she is aloof and politically tone-deaf, but those qualities helped her stand out in an Administration that often lacked ethical bearings. Aides admit she has a social worker's soft side that often gets the better of her, as it did in her handling of the Elian Gonzalez case. And congressional Republicans regard her by-the-book reading of laws as a knee-jerk reluctance to prosecute--especially when questions are raised about her bosses...

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

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