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...well spent. For an L.D.P. baron, Fukuda was famously incorruptible, and Koizumi watched his mentor lose power to factions of the party that had perfected pork-barrel politics. Koizumi today rants about the waste in government spending largely because he watched his enemies in the biggest L.D.P. faction shove fat contracts to construction bosses who delivered votes and campaign war chests in return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Outsider | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...angst of the tenured baby boomer doesn't ring tragic to many folks--at least it promises to take Max into new emotional territory for a man. And then some. Dreyfuss, Yorkin says, "is not afraid to be shown looking at his own paunch in the mirror and feeling fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manly Pursuits | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...opened with an energetic version of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' by Usher, Mya and Whitney Houston, Marlon Brando brought things to a halt by sitting onstage in a La-Z-Boy and bathing in a full minute of silence. Then he said, "You may be saying, 'Who's that fat f___ sitting there?' I took one whole minute because I wanted to realize that in that minute, there were hundreds if not thousands of children who were hacked to death with a machete." The crowd, confused, booed. "If you just gave a fingernail of what you take home to michaeljackson.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The King Of Pop And Schlock | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...Rubin question, of course, is not meant literally. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton, is easily found in his chairman's office at Citigroup, the banking colossus. Fat lot of good that does us. The Bush Administration faces an all-out market crisis and can offer only wavering reassurances from the untested Paul O'Neill, the former Alcoa boss and current Treasury Secretary. And then there's Bush himself, whom no one sees as supremely tuned to Wall Street worries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Will Save Us This Time? | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Right now I quite like Mandarin songs more than Cantonese songs. Mandarin songs are more touching and poetic. Hong Kong pop songs are just too direct and boring. Also, Hong Kong pop audiences are quite wild. In Taiwan they really listen--no matter how fat or pretty or handsome you are. No matter what you look like, it doesn't matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackie Chan on Hong Kong | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

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