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...have been duped by his own scientists, who didn't tell him their work on WMD was not getting far. (It would have been a brave Iraqi who crossed Saddam on that point.) Alternatively, in the hall of mirrors that was Iraq, Saddam may have been trying to fool everyone into thinking that he had something he hadn't. But if the assumption that Saddam had deadly weapons looks, at least for now, to have been mistaken, it was to an extent understandable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So, What Went Wrong? | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...place. Guinness found his greatness in character roles. When he tried to escape what his early mentor John Gielgud tactlessly called "those funny little men you do so well" by playing Hamlet and Macbeth, he flopped. He scored as the schemers and observers on life's periphery; from the Fool to Laurence Olivier's King Lear, to an unforgettable gallery of cinematic disguises. There were the Ealing Studio roles (most famously as eight members of one family in 1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets) and the impotent men of responsibility in David Lean's epics. In 1962's Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Star is Scorned | 10/5/2003 | See Source »

...loser has more dignity because he keeps going despite his awareness of futility: he knows it's stupid to raise taxes and not lose every state except Minnesota, to try to kick the football while Lucy's holding it, to think dropping the AOL part from his name will fool anybody--but he tries anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Losers? Not These Bums | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...loser has more dignity because he keeps going despite his awareness of futility: he knows it's stupid to raise taxes and not lose every state except Minnesota, to try to kick the football while Lucy's holding it, to think dropping the AOL part from his name will fool anybody - but he tries anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Losers? Not These Bums | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Society shouldn't do a thing. Its not the government's job to help people eat correctly. We don't need programs or taxes or education. If the government steps in and regulates my Big Mac, I'm going to move to China where they don't try to fool you into thinking you're free. Jonathan Beerhalter Chicago, Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How can America end its obesity epidemic? | 8/11/2003 | See Source »

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