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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year 1999 was a big one for polls here at TIME.com. We shouldn't have been surprised. Pre-millennial fever seemed to add an extra edge to all the passions that motivate people to express themselves - political tension, national pride, economic disparity, religious fervor - and our polls were chum in the water for those with an overwhelming need to make themselves heard. Make themselves heard they did, turning out in record numbers for our polls, periodically flooding our tiny newsroom with ravenous vote-generating robots, angry e-mails and even threats of eternal damnation. The polls that touched a nerve...
...most part, Americans take to the streets only to express their political views when they believe the electoral system isn't responding to their concerns. And it's hardly surprising that those on the streets in Seattle may doubt the effectiveness of taking up their grievances at the polls in an electoral system totally beholden to the millions of dollars of corporate "soft money" that greases the wheels of both parties. Long after the ink has dried on the last signature of the last trade deal in Seattle, the aftershocks of the battle for its streets may reverberate in American...
...back at all. Jason Pierce, from Spiritualized. We sent him a track, and the day we sent him the track, I read in the music press--NME [Britain's New Musical Express magazine]--and it said Jason Pierce has been advised to rest, he's suffering from nervous exhaustion and he's been told by his doctors to rest...
...task. Trapped by language, she speaks in fragments where her thoughts come out as indistinguishable hodgepodges of sound. She used to speak with more clarity, but she is frustrated that in her 14 years of life, she has had so many ideas, dreams and opinions that she could not express in words...
Averell was arrested last Wednesday for trespassing and disorderly conduct when he attempted to board a Delta Express plane even after being turned away at the gate...