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...exact copy of his plan, Bush believes he's already won. "The question is not whether there should be a tax cut but when and how much," says one of his aides. No matter how crowded the trough gets, Bush thinks he'll get credit for the feast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is That Oink, Oink? | 2/11/2001 | See Source »

...right might howl for a while, but it's not going to abandon Bush unless he abandons tax cuts. And Ford isn't an apt comparison. Some thought, without evidence, that Ford had cut a deal with Nixon, and Nixon haters, with nothing but the bloodless Watergate hearings to feast on, felt they had not got all their licks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Forgive Would Be Divine | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...December Your year of shopping is done, with a good percentage of it at substantial savings. Feast, celebrate and count your savings after your blessings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sampler's Seasonal Shopping Guide | 1/16/2001 | See Source »

...messed-up sisters and their mother, who has just buried her second husband, try to stage a Christmas celebration in this soberly stated, quietly expert French comedy. You can't imagine the number of husbands and lovers, current and former, who need to be accounted for at the holiday feast. There's also an unacknowledged sibling and a troubling pregnancy to be dealt with. But deft direction and an elegant ensemble combine to make an ironic, dryly sentimental comment on the clash between Yule tradition and postmodern sexual anarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: La Buche | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...another with conscienceless enthusiasm. The to and fro of the Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian tit for tat that went on until the entire argument collapsed in exhaustion and the Edict of Nantes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For a Little Perspective, Look to Montaigne | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

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