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...long by so few. "Those goddamn bastards!" party elder Wang Zhen shouts at one point in the papers. "Who do they think they are, trampling on sacred ground like Tiananmen so long!? They're really asking for it! We should send the troops in right now to grab those counterrevolutionaries!" Wang died in 1993. One wonders what he would have made of the Starbucks that now sits near the square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secrets of the Square | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...came out, Fox tried to raise the bar of shock value. While “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” offered a look into a person’s thought process, “Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?” tried to grab ratings with a sleazy twist on the same theme. And that’s all Temptation Island is—a sleazy twist on Survivor...

Author: By Benjamin D. Grizzle, | Title: When TV Networks Attack | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...Melissa Johnson started against Dartmouth but played only 12 minutes, including just four in the second half. Johnson, who missed time at the beginning of the season because of troubles with her knee, was visibly favoring her affected leg as she trotted up and down the court. She did grab four rebounds in the time she did see and frustrated Hanks defensively...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Hoops Overtakes Dartmouth to Open Ivy Season | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Best of all, the man knew his audience. He didn't rail against our lack of an attention span; he played to it. The minute that big, easily bored, sugar-fueled baby that is the American public started to drift off, he'd grab a straw hat and a banjo and somehow get us back. And so we never turned him off. We sat and watched, grinning and glassy-eyed, waiting expectantly to see what the funny man with the fat red nose would do next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I'll Miss About Bill Clinton | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...television and inspire and reassure people that he, and by extension the administration, will always do the right thing. In an era of good news - falling crime rates and dipping drug use figures - Clinton hasn't had anybody to put on the Sunday talking-head shows to grab credit. Neither Freeh or Attorney General Janet Reno would showboat for the administration. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey would, but the retired general's too-hot-for-prime-time style sometimes provoked backlash. Ashcroft may serve that function for Bush, or he may be viewed as too much of a pol, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why George W. Wanted Louis Freeh at the FBI — and Why Louis Wants to Stay | 1/5/2001 | See Source »

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