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...sure that's true. I believe in a different idea about politics: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." (I'll let you guess who said that.) But the way politics has evolved in the last two decades has debased the very idea that it can have meaning in our lives. And that is sad. High office is a public trust, and so many have squandered that trust. Most people today see public servants as serving their own ambition, not the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Is Not Life | 12/16/2000 | See Source »

...want to be policing these types of things," Lewis adds. "I'm not going to hire another five people to pounce on two or three clowns doing something stupid in front of the Science Center. So I guess we take a sort of laissez-faire approach...

Author: By Melissa R. Brewster, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Punches? What Punches? | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...them into voting for Nazi-revisionist Pat Buchanan. And there are the random voters who had the misfortune to vote in heavily Democratic precincts using antiquated machines that have an undercount rate five times as great as those with modern equipment. I'm Irish. I know from grudges. My guess is that they don't get over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: He Ain't Heavy. He's My Brother | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...Guess whose brother just happens to be in the Himalayan neighborhood, eager to save the sister who has not forgiven him for Dad's death? Now try to guess why Scott Glenn signed on to play the shaggy, half-mad old man of the mountains honchoing the rescue. It is the year's most ludicrous character part in what is likely the year's most ludicrous action movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Free Fall | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...RUTH BADER GINSBURG APPOINTED BY Bill Clinton (1993) She usually votes with the liberals, but Ginsburg has been restrained in using Court power to second-guess legislatures. During the first round of arguments in this case, however, she also defended the Florida court's power to interpret the word of the state legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Nine Supremes Line Up | 12/10/2000 | See Source »

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