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...course, do such potent variables as geography (coastline, access to rivers, ports), climate, religious heritage, sponsorship by superpowers and luck. Political explanations (imperialism, colonialism, racism) have passed out of fashion, if only because, true or not, they represent a protest without a program, a righteousness ultimately feckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teddy Roosevelt's Secret | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...course, do such potent variables as geography (coastline, access to rivers, ports), climate, religious heritage, luck and sponsorship by superpowers. Traditional explanations (imperialism, colonialism, racism, dependency) have passed out of fashion, if only because (true or not) they represent a protest without a program, a righteousness ultimately feckless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Some Countries Succeed and Others Don't | 5/10/2000 | See Source »

...though, of several thousand offenders the Justice Department prosecuted only five in 1997 and eight in 1998. All in all, a grand total of 17 federal and state laws were broken in the Columbine tragedy. Do we really believe an 18th can do anything for an administration so utterly feckless at upholding existing laws...

Author: By Boleslaw Z. Kabala, | Title: Editorial Notebook: The Right Way to Remember Columbine | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

Among the stories he tells are those of an obstetrician whose marriage is bitterly unraveling as he attempts to prevent a rape victim and her husband from aborting a child, and of a feckless youth who falls asleep on a palette of relief supplies and, dropped into a war zone, discovers his purpose. It is Dizdar's cool objectivity --his refusal to dwell on anyone's troubles (or triumphs)--that makes his portrait of good hearts overcoming emotional Balkanization the best movie of this very young millennium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just Beautiful | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...undercard for a Las Vegas championship fight. They're best buddies, so, good payday or not, beating up on each other is a bummer. Still, Grace (Lolita Davidovich), whom they both love, is driving them from L.A. She's flaky fun, but the movie never achieves more than feckless amiability. Shelton (Bull Durham) has done better with athletic lowlifes and doubtless will again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Play It To The Bone | 1/17/2000 | See Source »

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